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Organized by:
UN ESCAP
(United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific)
Population and Social Integration
Section, Emerging Social Issues Division
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UN ESCAP Workshop on Women and Disabilitiy:
Promoting Full Participation of Women with Disabilities in the Process of Elaboration
on an International Convention to Promote and Protect the Rights and Dignity of Persons
with Disabilities
Bangkok, Thailand
First Phase: 18-22 August 2003
Second Phase: 13 October 2003
These are two workshop events designed to provide a good package of
advocacy skills, targeting mainly women with disabilities. The agenda of the first
workshop covered the various aspects of a convention and the Biwako Millenium Framework
(BMF) targets to enhance the understanding of the concept of gender mainstreaming among
NGOs and self-help organizations of persons with disabilities. Participants became
familiar with and accepted the BMF and were motivated to implement the necessary actions
to achieve the BMF goals, particularly those related to women and disability.
Beneficiaries were policy makers of NGOs, IGOs, and self-help organizations in addition to
some governmental organizations.
The workshops will promote a rights-based approach through training sessions to
generate unified ESCAP regional support to the ongoing process of elaborating an
international convention on the rights of persons with disabilities. This first workshop
provided advocacy skills for women with disabilities to actively participate in the
national, regional and global efforts towards an International Convention on Promoting and
Protecting the Rights and Dignity of Disabled Persons (the International Convention),
taking into consideration international and regional instruments and norms such as the
1993 Standard Rules on the Equalization of Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities
(the Standard Rules).
Through promoting the BMF, NGOs, self-help groups and governments are expected to
increase in priority accorded to, and mainstreaming of, gender concerns (in particular the
equalization of opportunities for women with disabilities) into their policies and
programmes.
The recommendations from the envisaged workshops will be incorporated into the ESCAP regional meeting on the International
Convention, which will be a vital regional input to the global sessions of "Ad
Hoc Committee for the Comprehensive and Integrated International Convention on Protecting
and Promoting the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities (the Ad Hoc
Committee)", the Working Group and other parallel efforts. |
