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AD HOC COMMITTEE ON
AN INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION

Documents and contributions
NGO Participation

Ad Hoc Committee – Documents

SECOND SESSION

CONTRIBUTIONS

Compilations

Views submitted by Governments, Intergovernmental Organizations and United Nations bodies on a Comprehensive and Integral International Convention on Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities (A/AC.265/2003/4 + A/AC.265/2003/4/Corr.1) [ Français | Español | عربي ]

Compilation of proposals for a Comprehensive and Integral International Convention to Promote and Protect the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities (A/AC.265/2003/CRP/13)

NGO contributions to the elements of a convention (A/AC.265/2003/CRP/13 Add. 1)

Governments

European Union: Elements for an International Convention (A/AC.265/2003/CRP/13 Add. 2) 

Draft submitted by the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela Comprehensive and Integral International Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities (A/AC.265/2003/WP.1).

Regional Conferences

Bangkok recommendations on the elaboration of a comprehensive and integral international convention to promote and protect the rights and dignity of persons with disabilities. Outcome of an expert group meeting and seminar held in Bangkok at the headquarters of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific from 2 to 4 June 2003. (A/AC.265/2003/CRP/10)

Beirut Declaration and Recommendations on the elaboration of a comprehensive and integral international convention to promote and protect the rights and dignity of persons with disabilities (A/AC.265/2003/CRP/12)

Declaration of Quito (A/AC.265/2003/CRP/8)

Disability African Regional Consultative Conference (ARCC), Final Statement, 6 May 2003 (A/AC.265/2003/CRP/11)
Executive Summary

Inter-governmental organizations (including United Nations system)

ECLAC - CEPAL
ESCAP
FAO
ICAO
ILO
OHCHR
PAHO
UNICEF
WHO

Council of Arab Ministers of Social Affairs
Background paper on the international convention for the protection and promotion of the rights and dignity of persons with disabilities.
Summary of activities in fields and concerning issues relating to the nature, structure and components of a comprehensive and integral international covention to promote and protect the rights and dignity of persons with disabilities.

National Human Rights Institutions

Discussion Paper on Founding Principles of Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Danish Institute for Human Rights, A/AC.265/2003/CRP/9

National Human Rights Institutions form the Commonwealth and Asia Pacific Region. New Delhi, India 26-30 May 2003

Conclusions of the Workshop on the Human Rights of Persons With Disabilities of the Network of National Institutions for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights of the Americas, San José, Costa Rica, March 28, 2003
[ Français | Español ]

Final Declaration of the Regional Workshop on Promoting the Rights of People with Disabilities: Towards a New UN Convention, Munyonyo, Kampala, Uganda, 5-6 June 2003. Secretariat of African National Institutions.

Non-Governmental Organizations and Independent Experts

Disability Awareness in Action, DAART Centre for Disability and Human Rights. Submission to the United Nations Ad Hoc Committee on a comprehensive and integral international convention to promote and protect the rights and dignity of persons with disabilities, 2003

Disabled Peoples' International (DPI). Position Paper Regarding a New International Human Rights Convention for Disabled People, February 2003.

European Disability Forum. The EDF Contribution to the Second Ad Hoc Committee to consider proposals for a United Nations Convention to Protect and Promote the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.  Brussels, May 2003 [Français Español]

Inclusion International. Some reflections, proposals and recommendations for the IDA meeting on the Convention to Protect the Rights of Disabled Persons,  February 2003 [Español]

Independent expert. Draft Convention

International Disability Alliance (IDA). Towards a UN Disability Convention: Statement for 2nd Ad Hoc Committee Session, 2 March 2003 [Français Español]

Rehabilitation International (RI), The Arab Region Document: Toward a Comprehensive and integrated Convention on Protecting and promoting the Rights of Disabled Persons, March 2003.

World Blind Union, Manifesto for a United Nations Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities: 'Equal Rights and Full inclusion as World Citizens,' February 2003. [PDF format only]

World Federation of the Deaf (WFD). Position Paper regarding the United Nations Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities

World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry (WNUSP). Submission to the United Nations Ad Hoc Committee on a comprehensive and integral international convention to promote and protect the rights and dignity of persons with disabilities

Statements

In an effort to make information accessible, the Division for Social Policy and Development has posted statements sent in by speakers. Statements are posted as received, and are in a fully accessible format.

Panel Discussions and Side Events

 

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