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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
and
China Disabled
Persons' Federation
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UN ESCAP/CDPF Field Study cum Regional Workshop
on Poverty Alleviation among Persons with Disabilities
 Lanzhou,
Gansu Province, China
25-29 October 2004
Joint Statement on Poverty Alleviation for Persons with Disabilities
Final
Report
Photos
Video (Duration
1:11; Size 1.5MB; requires Windows Media; not captioned)
The China Disabled Persons' Federation, in cooperation with UNESCAP's
Population and Social Integration Section, Emerging Social Issues Division
has organized Field Study cum Regional Workshop as a follow-up on actions
recommended in a similar workshop in Hyderabad, India in 6-15 December 1999.
Policy makers on disability, poverty alleviation, urban planning, social
security, education and ICT in the member countries of the United Nations
Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific will meet to find
ways to increase participation of persons with disabilities in rural poverty
alleviation programmes and projects.
The outcome of this workshop will be beneficial for UNESCAP members and
associate members in the formulation of national policy on disability, in
particular, to meet the goal No. 7 of the
Biwako
Millennium Framework, namely “poverty alleviation through capacity
building of persons with disabilities and through social security”. |
