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Biwako Millenium Framework - National Plan of Action

Regional Workshop on Comprehensive National Plan of Action on Disability - Towards the Mid-point Review of the Biwako Millennium Framework for Action towards an Inclusive, Barrier-free and Rights-based Society for Persons with Disabilities in Asia and the Pacific (BMF)
Bangkok, Thailand, 19-21 October 2005
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THE STATE OF THE RATIFICATION OF CONVENTION 159 AS OF September 2005

Countries covered by the UN ESCAP region The year that country signed the Proclamation The year that the country ratified ILO 159 convention The year the country joined the ILO

East and North-East Asia
China* 1992 1988 1919 (AP)
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea 1993    
Japan 1993 1993 1919-40 and -51- (AP)
Mongolia 1993 1993 1968 (AP)
Republic of Korea 1993 1993 1991 (AP)
Brunei Darussalam 1993    
Cambodia 1994   1969 (AP)
Indonesia 1993   1950 (AP)
Lao People’s Democratic Republic 1995   1964 (AP)
Malaysia 1994   1957 (AP)
Myanmar 1994   1948 (AP)
Philippines 1993 1991 1948 (AP)
Singapore 1993   1965 (AP)
Thailand 1993   1919 (AP)
Viet Nam 1993   50-76, -80-85, -92- (AP)
South and South-West Asia
Afghanistan 2002   1934 (AP)
Bangladesh 1993   1972 (AP)
Bhutan 1995    
India 1993   1919 (AP)
Maldives 1994    
Nepal 1993   1996 (AP)
Pakistan 1993 1994 1947 (AP)
Sri Lanka 1993   1948 (AP)
North and Central Asia
Armenia 1992    
Azerbaijan   1992 1992
Georgia     1993
Kazakhstan     1993
Kyrgyzstan 1999 1992 1992
Russian Federation   1988 1934-40 and 1954-
Tajikistan   1993 1993
Turkmenistan     1993
Uzbekistan 1997   1992
Pacific
American Samoa      
Australia 1993 1990 1919 (AP)
Cook Islands 2000    
Fiji 1993 2005 1974 (AP)
French Polynesia      
Guam 1997    
Kiribati 1999   2000 (AP)
Marshall Islands 1997    
Micronesia 1993    
Nauru      
New Caledonia 2002    
New Zealand 1995   1919 (AP)
Niue 1997    
Northern Mariana Islands      
Palau 1997    
Samoa 1998    
Solomon Islands 1994   1984 (AP)
Tonga 1999    
Tuvalu      
Vanuatu 1999   2003 (AP)
TOTAL TOTAL TOTAL  
53 41 9 to 22%  
  Signed after October 2002    
Timor Leste 2004   2003 (AP)
Turkey 2003 2000 1932
Papua New Guinea 2003   1976 (AP)
TOTAL TOTAL TOTAL TOTAL
56 44 10 to 23% 38 (28 AP)

* UN ESCAP breaks down Hong Kong and Macao, for this purpose they are not seperately listed

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