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

PROVISIONAL AGENDA

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)
2. The questions about International monitoring proposed by the Chair of AHC for the forthcoming discussion at the 8th session
3. Forward- looking strategies: after the adoption of the Convention in the Asia-Pacific region
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)

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