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Sixth Meeting of the Ad Hoc Committee 24 January - 4 February 2005 United Nations, New York

Fifth Meeting of the Ad-Hoc Committee at UN New York [UN web site links:] Sixth Meeting home page Documents of the Sixth Session   Revisions and amendments proposed at the Sixth Session List of Facilitators by Article List of NGO Representatives Side-events Press Releases

Coverage by Non-Governmental Organizations Ad Hoc Committee Daily Summaries A service brought to you by RI (Rehabilitation International) 1 August 2005, Summary No. 1 Article 15 - Living independently and Article 24 (bis) International Cooperation 2 August 2005, Summary No. 2 Article 15(bis) - Women with Disabilities, Article 16 - Children with Disabilities, and Article 17 - Education 3 August 2005, Summary No. 3 Article 17 - Education (cont) 4 August 2005, Summary No. 4 Article 17 (cont) - Education, Article 18 - Participation in Political and Public Life, and a statement from the Chairperson of the Committee on the Rights of the Child 5 August 2005, Summary No. 5 Article 19 - Accessibility; Article 20 - Personal Mobility; Article 21 - Health and Rehabilitation 8 August 2005, Summary No. 6 Article 21 and 21(bis) (cont) - Health and Rehabilitation; Article 23 - Social Security and Adequate Standard of Living   9 August 2005, Summary No. 7 Article 23 - Social Security and Adequate Standard of Living (cont) and Article 22 - Right to Work   10 August 2005, Summary No. 8 Article 22 - Right to Work (cont); Article 24 - Participation in Cultural Life, Recreation, Leisure and Sports; and a statement from the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on Article 25 - Monitoring 11 August 2005, Summary No. 9 Article 25 - Monitoring, followed by discussion on Convention Structure and concluding with Reports from Facilitators, for Article 16 - Children with Disabilities, Article 15(bis) - Women with Disabilities, Article 19 - Accessibility, Article 21 and 21(bis) - Right to Health and Rehabilitation / Habilitation 12 August 2005, Summary No. 10 Reports from Facilitators: Article 21 and 21(bis) - Right to Health and Rehabilitation / Habilitation (cont); Article 23 - Participation in Cultural Life, Recreation, Leisure and Sport; Article 24(bis) – International Cooperation; Article 19 – Accessibility; Article 22 – Right to Work; Article 17 - Education. Review and Adoption of formal Report of the 6th AHC and Annex II - Report of the Chairman. The Sixth Ad Hoc Committee Daily Summaries is a public service by RI (Rehabilitation International), a global network promoting the Rights, Inclusion and Rehabilitation of people with disabilities. RI extends its sincere gratitude to the Governments of Norway, Ireland, Canada and New Zealand for their generous support towards this project. The Daily Summaries are available online at http://www.riglobal.org/un/index.html in MSWord; http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/enable/rights/ahc6summary.htm; http://www.worldenable.net/rights/; and www.ishr.ch Please report errors or comments to Zahabia_a@hotmail.com Return to top