UN ESCAP/CDPF Regional Meeting on an International Convention on Disability
Beijing, China, 4-7 November 2003

PROVISIONAL AGENDA

1. Opening of the Workshop
   
2. Keynote speeches
   
3. Objective of the Seminar
   
4. Towards the Elaboration of an International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
   1. The objective of this seminar, overview of the move towards an international convention and "the Bangkok Recommendations" (the outcome of ESCAP EGM 2-4 June 2003)
   2. Report of the Second Session of the Ad Hoc Committee on a Comprehensive and Integral Convention on Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities (16-27 June 2003, New York)
   3. International convention and the standard rules on the equalization of opportunities for persons with disabilities by a speaker
   4. Capacity building of national governments and NGOs to promote the rights of persons with disabilities
      
5. "Rights Based Approaches to Development and Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities"
   1. Presentation of the Biwako millennium framework for action as a tool for mainstreaming disability concerns
   2. Right to access information and communication
      
6. Report of EGM 2-4 June 2003, Bangkok Recommendations & Workshop on women and disability (gender perspective)
   
7. Orientation of the Working Group Discussions
   
8. Working Group Discussions
   1. Preamble, objectives, scope/definitions
   2. General and specific obligations of states parties
   3. Guarantee of equality and non-discrimination, guarantees of specific rights
   4. Monitoring/review/remedy mechanisms, miscellaneous provisions
      
9. Synthesis of the Working Group Reports and Discussion of the Recommendations, "Beijing Declaration"
   
10. Adoption of Declaration
    
11. Closing of the Seminar

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