Women and Disability Workshop

UN ESCAP Workshop on Women and Disability: 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
18-22 August 2003, Bangkok, Thailand
13 October 2003, Bangkok, Thailand

Main	Programme	Materials	Online	Bangkok

Main
	Statement of Recommendations
	Final Report
Advanced Information
	Provisional Agenda: First Phase
	Provisional Programme: First Phase
	Provisional Programme: Second Phase
	Background Reading
	Overview
	Meeting Brief
	Participants
		Registration
		Hotel Reservation
		Getting to Bangkok

Participants will be asked to produce a short paper on policy development on gender mainstream programmes, in preparation for the workshop.
Participants are also asked to read the Bangkok Recommendations and be familiar with the BMF.
Please register for the workshop

Participants

List of participants
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Participants will come from the targets groups - policy makers and managers of civil society organizations (NGOs of persons with disabilities, mainstreaming women's NGOs, human rights organizations, etc.) and self-help groups of persons with disabilities, in addition to some representatives from governmental agencies. Special preference is to be given to women with disabilities.

Results : At the end of this workshop and a follow-up workshop, the participant women with disabilities are well equipped with lobbying skills and motivated to take actions for ensuring that the women with disabilities' perspective is fully incorporated into the process toward the International Convention at all (national, regional and international) levels.