PPT Slide
Introduction
Agenda
What is the legal status of the Rules?
A convention
Why is there no convention on disability?
Decision to draft a normative text
How the Rules were drafted
Negotiating the Rules
The context of the Rules
IV. Monitoring mechanism
Commission for Social Development
Special Rapporteur
Advisory Group
Questions or comments?
Reviewing the content of the Rules
How to move ahead
Vocabulary
Disability
Handicap
Disability and Handicap in the ICIDH-2
Disability in the Americans with Disability Act
Practical definitions by the Census Bureau for the Americans with Disabilities Act
Prevention
Question: Should we focus on prevention?
Rehabilitation
Achievement of equalization of opportunities
Some implications
Structure of the Rules
Be careful!
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