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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 Seventh Session and
Preparation for the Eighth Session of the Ad Hoc Committee of the General
Assembly on the Elaboration of a Convention on the Rights and Dignity of
Persons with Disabilities
Bangkok, Thailand, 20-21 July 2006
  Joint
Statement On An UN Convention On The Rights And Dignity Of Persons With
Disabilities, adopted 21 July 2006
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 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 eighth
session of the Ad Hoc Committee (AHC), to be held in New York on 14-25
August 2006.
The workshop's agenda will cover:
- The latest status of the process towards an International Convention
on Protecting and Promoting the Rights and Dignity of Persons with
Disability, a report from the
7th session
of the Ad Hoc Committee (held from 16 January to 3 February 2006, at
New York) and for the preparation for the
8th session
of Ad Hoc Committee (to be held from 14 to 25 August 2006)
- The questions about International monitoring proposed by the Chair of
AHC for the forthcoming discussion at the 8th session
- Forward- looking strategies: after the adoption of the Convention in
the Asia-Pacific region
- The alignment effects of the Convention, the
Biwako
Millennium Framework for Action towards an Inclusive, Barrier-free and
Rights-based Society for Persons with Disabilities, the
Standard Rules
on Equalization of Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities and
domestic disability legislative (e.g. anti-discrimination law)
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. |
