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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
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Tentative Programme of the 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

Day 1: Thursday, 20 July 2006
0900-0915 Opening Session:
  • Opening Remark by Mr. Kim Hak-Su, Executive Secretary of UNESCAP
0915-0930 Coffee break
0930-1030
  • Election of officers of the Workshop
  • Adoption of the agenda
  • The objective of the workshop (by Ms. Kay Nagata, disability focal point, PSIS/ESID, UN ESCAP) [PowerPoint Slides]
1030-1230 Agenda item 1: 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)
  • Presentation by Prof. Andrew Byrnes (Resource person) [PowerPoint slides]
  • Commentators: Mr. Monthian Buntan (Head of Thai delegation to AHC) & Ms. Anuradha Mohit (National Human Rights Institution, India)
1230-1330 Lunch break
1330-1430 Agenda Item 2: The questions about International monitoring proposed by the Chair of AHC for the forthcoming discussion at the 8th session
  1. Presentation by Prof. Andrew Byrnes (Resource person) [PowerPoint slides]
  2. Discussion
1445-1600 Agenda Item 3: Forward- looking strategies: after the adoption of the Convention in the Asia-Pacific region Presentation by:
  1. United Nations OHCHR Asia Pacific Regional Office (Ms. Upala Devi Banerjee)
  2. Prof. Andrew Byrnes (Resource person) [PowerPoint slides]
  3. Discussion

Day 2: Friday, 21 July 2006
0900-1030 Agenda item 4: 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)

Presentation by:

  1. Ms. Venus Illagan, President, DPI
  2. Mr. Eiichi Takada, Japan Disability Forum (JDF)
  3. Ms Rosemary Kayess, NACLC, Australia
  4. Ms Catalina Fermin, Executive Director, National Council for the Welfare of Disabled Persons, the Philippines
  5. Mr. Herman L. Poon, Legal Counsel, Equal Opportunity Commission Hong Kong
1030-1045 Coffee Break
1045-1130 Continuation of Agenda item 4
  • Q and A
  • Discussion
1130-1500 Lunch break for other participants (group lunch arranged)

After lunch:

  • Drafting Committee Session (officers of the workshop and the resource person)
1500-1600 Presentation, discussion and adoption of the joint Statement (outcome of this workshop, drafted by the drafting committee)
1600 Round-up session and Closing

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