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Organized by:
UN ESCAP
(United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific)
Population and Social Integration
Section, Emerging Social Issues Division
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Second Session of the Biwako Millennium Framework (BMF) Stakeholders'
Coordination Meeting
Bangkok, Thailand, 1-2 March 2007
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Working Draft BIWAKO Plus Five by BMF-SCM, 1-2 March 2007 (Your comments
on this draft are invited by 27 April 2007)
The
Biwako Millennium Framework
(BMF)
provides a framework for action to further the goals of an inclusive,
barrier-free and rights-based society for persons with disabilities in Asia
and the Pacific. BMF contains seven priority areas for action and four
strategic actions that Governments, in cooperation with civil society, are
urged to pursue to further achieve the goals and commitments of BMF in the
period 2003-2012.
BMF and ESCAP resolution 61/8 states that the midpoint review should be
conducted in 2007, in which current status of the BMF implementation will be
reviewed and the targets and strategic plans for the second half of the
Decade will be formulated.
Following these mandates, the overall goal of the Second Session of the
BMF-SCM is to identify key issues to be considered for the "Preliminary
Working Draft of the Biwako Plus Five", which will be presented by the
secretariat. The topics include:
- Review of the process towards the High level Inter-governmental
meeting on the Mid-point Review of the Asian Pacific Decade of Disabled
Persons to be held from 19 to 21 September 2007 in Bangkok, Thailand, in
which the Biwako Plus Five will be adopted;
- Summary of the progress and challenges on the BMF implementation
during the first half of the Decade,
- Summary of the relevant global norms and developments that have
taken place during the first half of the decade and the challenges;
- Review of the impact of disasters and conflict situations on persons
with disabilities;
- Discussion on the convergence between the International Convention
on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the Biwako Millennium
Framework for Action and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs);
- Reviewing the Preliminary Working Draft of the Biwako Plus Five;
- Making substantive contributions to the text of the ‘Preliminary
Working Draft of the Biwako Plus Five’
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