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Interregional Seminar and Symposium on Annex IList of DocumentsA. International InstrumentsA.1 International Instruments relating to disability and progress implementation reports “The Standard Rules on the Equalization of Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities”. Official Records of the General Assembly, Forty-eighth Session, Supplement No. 49 (A/48/49), vol. 1, chap. VII, General Assembly resolution 48/96, annex, of 20 December 1993 < http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/enable/dissre00.htm>. “Principles for the protection of persons with mental illness and the improvement of mental health care”. Official Records of the General Assembly, Forty-sixth Session, Supplement No. 49 (A/46/49), vol. 1, chap. VII, General Assembly resolution 46/119 of 17 December 1991 < http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/68.htm>. “Declaration on the Rights of Mentally Retarded Persons”. Official Records of the General Assembly, Twenty-sixth Session, Supplement No. 29 (A/8429), Proclaimed by General Assembly resolution 2856 (XXVI) of 20 December 1971 < http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/m_mental.htm>. “Declaration on the Rights of Disabled Persons”. Official Records of the General Assembly, Thirtieth Session, Supplement No. 34 (A/10034), Proclaimed by General Assembly resolution 3447 (XXX) of 9 December 1975 < http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/72.htm>. Committee on Economic, Social Rights and Cultural Rights; General Comment No. 5 - “Persons with disabilities: 09/12/94” (Eleventh session, 1994). Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, Supplement No. 3 (E/1995/22) annex IV < http://www.unhchr.ch/tbs/doc.nsf >. Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women; General Recommendation No. 19 - “Disabled women: 04/01/91” (Tenth Session, 1991). Official Records of the General Assembly, Forty-sixth Session, Supplement No. 38 (A/46/38); Report of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (Tenth session) < http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/cedaw/recomm.htm>. International Labour Organization. Convention No. 159, “Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment (Disabled Persons) Convention,1983” <http://ilolex.ilo.ch:1567/cgi-lex/convde.pl?C159 >. International Labour Organization. Recommendation No 168, “Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment (Disabled Persons) Recommendation, 1983” <http://ilolex.ilo.ch:1567/cgi-lex/convde.pl?R168 >. United Nations. World Programme of Action concerning Disabled Persons (A/37/351/Add.1 and Corr.1, annex, sect. VIII, recommendation I (IV) <http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/enable/diswpa00.htm >adopted by the General Assembly resolution 37/52 of 3 December 1982. “Review and appraisal of the World Programme of Action concerning Disabled Persons; report of the Secretary-General (A/52/351)” <http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/enable/disrawp0.htm >. “Monitoring the implementation of the Standard Rules on the Equalization of Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities; Final report of the Special Rapporteur of the Commission for Social Development on monitoring the implementation of the Standard Rules on the Equalization of Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities (A/52/56, annex)” <http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/enable/dismsre0.htm >. A.2 Regional instruments relating to disabilityCouncil of Europe. “Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Dignity of the Human Being with regard to the Application of Biology and Medicine: Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine (European Treaty Series No. 164) Oviedo, 4 April 1997” <http://conventions/coe.int/treaty/en/Treaties/Html/164.htm>. Council of Europe. “Additional Protocol to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Dignity of the Human Being with regard to the Application of Biology and Medicine, on the Prohibition of Cloning Human Beings (European Treaty Series No. 168) Paris, 12 January 1998” <http://conventions.coe.int/treaty/en/Treaties/Html/168.htm >. Organization of American States. “Inter-American Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Persons with Disabilities AG/RES.1608” (XXIX-0/99) <http://www.oas.org/juridico/english/ga-res99/eres1608.htm >. Organization of American States. “Panama Commitment to Persons with Disabilities in the American Hemisphere AG/RES 1369” (XXVI-0/96) < http://www.oas.org/juridico/english/ga-res96/Res-1369.htm >. United Nations. Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific “Asian and Pacific Decade of Disabled Persons (1993-2002)”. Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, Supplement No. 11 (E/1992/31); Annual report of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (Forty-eight session) chap. IV, Commission resolution 48/3 of 23 April 1992, “Asian and Pacific Decade of Disabled Persons, 1993-2002” <http://www.unescap.org/decade/backgr.htm#resolution >; and “Proclamation on the Full Participation and Equality of People with Disabilities in the Asian and Pacific Region” <http://www.unescap.org/decade/backgr.htm#proclamation >. A.3 Selected technical reportsTraining seminar for Central America and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean on the Standard Rules (Santo Domingo, 13-18 April 1998); report <http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/enable/disttsre.htm >. Overview of international legal frameworks for disability legislation (August 1998) <http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/enable/disovlf.htm >. Consultative expert group meeting on international norms and standards relating to disability (University of California Berkeley (USA), 8-12 December 1998); report <http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/enable/disberk0.htm >. B. Selected country-specific legislation and documentsHong Kong (SAR). Disability Discrimination Ordinance (Chapter 487) 1996 < http://www.eoc.org.hk/CE/Ord/chap487/default.htm >. Hong Kong (SAR). Family Status Discrimination Ordinance (Chapter 527) 1997 < http://www.eoc.org.hk/TE/ord/chap527/index.htm>. Hong Kong (SAR). Sex Discrimination Ordinance (Chapter 480) 1996 < http://www.eoc.org.hk/TE/ord/chap480/index.htm >. United States. Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, Public Law 336 of the 101st Congress of the United States of America <http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/ada/pubs/ada.txt >. C. Selected articlesDoyle, Brian (1999). “From welfare to rights? Disability and legal change in the United Kingdom in the late 1990s", in Jones¸ Melinda and Basser-Marks, Lee Ann (Eds.). Disability, Divers-ability and Legal Change (International Studies in Human Rights 56), pp 209-226 (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers). Groce, Nora E. (1997). "Women with disabilities in the developing world: arenas for policy revision and programmatic change". Journal of Disability Policy Studies, vol. 8, No. 1&2, pp 177 –193. - - - - -. (1999). "Health beliefs and behavior towards individuals with disability cross- culturally", in Leavitt¸ Ronnie Linda (Ed.). Cross-cultural Rehabilitation: an international perspective, pp 37 -47 (London; Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders) Herr, Stanley S. (forthcoming 2000) "Is the American with Disabilities Act exportable? Disability rights in international perspective". Proceedings of American Society of International Law Panel. - - - - -. (1999). "Special education law and children with reading and other disabilities". Journal of Law and Education, vol. 28 no.3, pp337-389. Hui, Philip, Lewis, John, Bryant, Sharon and Chan, K.K. (1999). Code of Practice on Education under the Disability Discrimination Ordinance: draft for discussion purposes. (The Hong Kong Institute of Education). Jones, Melinda and Basser-Marks, Lee Ann (Eds.) (1999) Disability, Divers-Ability …op. cit. Lewis, John (1999). "Headlights on full beam: disability and education in Hong Kong" in Armstrong, Felicity and Barton, Len (Eds.) Disability, human rights and education: cross-cultural perspectives (Buckingham: Open University Press). Raye, Karin L. (1999). Violence, women and mental disability (Washington D.C. (USA): Mental Disability Rights International). Ridgely, Susan and van den Berg, Patricia (1997). "Women and coercion in mental health treatment: commitment, involuntary medication, seclusion and restraint". (Tampa, FL (USA): Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute at the University of South Florida, Department of Mental Health Law and Policy). Rioux, Marcia (1997). "Disability: the place of judgment in a world of fact". Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, vol. 41, part 2, pp 102-111. |
