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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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UN ESCAP Workshop on Regional Follow-up to the Fifth Session and Preparation
for the Sixth Session of the Ad Hoc Committee on an International Convention
on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with
Disabilities
Bangkok, Thailand, 26-27 July 2005
 Joint
Statement
障害者の権利条約に関する共同声明
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This two-day workshop was 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 fifth session of the Ad Hoc
Committee. Also the workshop provided a set of effective preparatory
strategies for global discussion and negotiation at the forthcoming sixth
session of the Ad hoc Committee (AHC), to be held in New York during the
first two weeks of August 2005.
The workshops’ agenda will cover:
- participation of DPOs and NGOs in the process towards the Convention
and at AHC sessions;
- establishment of an effective monitoring mechanism at the national
level;
- towards an anti-discrimination law in countries of the ESCAP region;
- disability inclusive technical cooperation and
- towards ratification of the Convention.
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 and 2004,
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 and a
Joint
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).
*Japanese translation courtesy of the Japanese Society
for Rehabilitation of Persons with Disabilities (JSRPD)
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