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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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Expert Group Meeting on the Promotion of Social and Economic Participation
of Persons with Disabilities towards the Biwako Plus Five
Bangkok, Thailand, 27-28 February 2007
 Biwako
Plus Five Draft adopted by EGM 27-28 February 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 Expert Group Meeting is
to enable experts to review the achievements made in implementing the BMF,
the global and regional developments that took place and identify the key
issues. Based on these, the Meeting will examine the structure and outline
of the Biwako Plus Five presented by the secretariat and prepare a
‘preliminary working draft of the Biwako Plus Five’ with the agreed
structure and outline. The topics include:
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