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UN ESCAP/APDF Workshop on Regional Follow-up to the Third and
Fourth Sessions of the Ad Hoc Committee on a Comprehensive and Integral
International Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights and
Dignity of Persons with Disabilities |
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Organized by: UN ESCAP |
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Workshop Outcome:
Joint Statement
Final Report
Participant List (restricted)
Group Reports |
This two-day workshop is designed to provide a good package of advocacy skills targeting mainly civil society and government leaders and informing them of the latest of the global process of elaboration of the Convention and possible regional follow-up to the 3rd and 4th sessions of the Ad Hoc Committee.
The workshops’ agenda will cover the Biwako Millennium Framework targets to enhance the understanding of the rights based approach, the process towards the Convention and details of keys issues, such as “accessibility rights”, “monitoring mechanism”, “reasonable accommodation”, “definition and coverage”, and “capacity building and technical cooperation”. It will cover the critical link between the process toward the Convention and establishment and/or revision of national disability-related legislatives and a comprehensive and sustainable national policy on disability. National policy makers (both governmental officers and civil society members) will be motivated to initiate a “head start” to reflect this disability-specific human rights package in their domestic policies and programmes in a timely manner. Beneficiaries should include among others policy makers of NGOs, IGOs, self-help organizations in addition to selected governmental organizations and international donors.
Furthermore, the training sessions will promote a rights-based approach to generate a unified ESCAP regional support to the ongoing process of elaborating an international convention on the rights of persons with disabilities.
During the second half of 2003, a series of UN ESCAP-sponsored workshops were established to critically review the Recommendations and a draft text for the convention on disability. The full draft text, called the Revised Bangkok Draft, together with a Beijing Declaration were submitted to the Working Group of the Ad Hoc Committee on a Comprehensive and Integral International Convention on Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities which were held early in 2004 through the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA).
