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Working Group on a Convention

The Working Group established by the Ad Hoc Committee will meet from 5 to 16 January 2004 to draft a text of an international convention on the rights of persons with disabilities.

Introduction
Membership

Documents

• Report of the Working Group to the Ad Hoc Committee
• Chair's Draft text (I-IV) Elements
• Chair's Draft text (V) Implementation and Monitoring
• Chair's Draft text - Preamble
• Agenda
• Organization of Work
• Compilation of Proposals for Elements of a Convention (as of 15 January 2004)
• Daily Summaries
  (Courtesy of Landmines Survivors Network)

Introduction

After its second meeting in June 2003, the Ad Hoc Committee on a Comprehensive and Integral International Convention on Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities decided (see Report of the Ad hoc Committee, A/58/118 for the complete text of the decision) to establish a Working Group with the aim of preparing and presenting a draft text of a convention, which would be the basis for negotiation by Member States. The Group would take into account all previous contributions submitted to the Ad Hoc Committee by States, observers, regional meetings, relevant United Nations bodies, entities and agencies, regional commissions and intergovernmental organizations, as well as civil society including non-governmental organizations (NGOs), national disability and human rights institutions and independent experts. The decision also provided the composition of the Group which would include non-governmental organizations (NGOs), especially organizations of persons with disabilities and from all regions. The Working Group will have a ten day meeting from 5 to 16 January 2004 and will present the outcome of its work on a draft text to the Ad Hoc Committee at its third session.

Membership

Governments (27)

    Asia (7)

• China - Mr. Xie Bohua
• India - Ms. Rajwant Sandhu
• Japan - Ms. Shikegi Sumi
• Lebanon - Mrs. Nehmat Kanaan
• Philippines - H.E. Mr. Lauro L. Baja
• Republic of Korea - Mr. Ick Seop Lee
• Thailand - Mr. Montien Buntan

    Africa (7)

• Cameroon - Mr. Rodolphe Soh
• Comoros - Mr. Mohamed El-Marouf
• Mali - Mr. Issa Konfourou
• Morocco - H.E. Mr. Mohamed Bennouna
• Sierra Leone - H.E. Mr. Sylvester E. Rowe
• South Africa -Ms. Sebenzile Matsebula
• Uganda - Mrs. Florence Nayiga Sekabira

    Latin America and the Caribbean (5)

• Colombia - Mrs. Beatriz Londoño
• Ecuador - Mr. Miguel Carbo
• Jamaica - Mr. Floyd Morris
• Mexico - H.E. Mr. Luis Alfonso de Alba
• Venezuela - Mr. Lenin Molina Peñaloza

    Western Europe and other (5)

• Canada – Mr. David Sproule
• Germany - Ms. Theresia Degener
• Ireland – Mr. John Biggar
• New Zealand – Ms. Jan Scown
• Sweden - Ms. Carina Mårtensson

    Eastern Europe (3)

• Russian Federation - Mr. Sergey Tolkalin
• Serbia and Montenegro - Mr. Damjan Tatic
• Slovenia - Ms. Aleksandra Tabaj

Non-governmental organizations (12)

• Landmine Survivors Network - Mr. Adnan al Aboudi (Jordan)
• Inter-American Institute on Disability - Mr. Luis Fernando Astorga Gatjens (Costa Rica)
• Disabled Peoples’ International - Mr. Shuaib Chalklen (South Africa)
• European Disability Forum - Mr. Yannis Vardakastanis (Greece)
• World Federation of the Deafblind - Mr. Lex Grandia (Denmark)
• Disabled Peoples’ International - Ms. Venus Ilagan (Philippines)
• World Federation of the Deaf - Ms. Liisa Kauppinen (Finland)
• Inclusion International - Mr. Robert Martin (New Zealand) [assisted by Klaus Lachwitz from Germany]
• World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry - Ms. Tina Minkowitz (USA)
• Disability Australia Limited - Ms. Anuradha Mohit (India)
• World Blind Union - Ms. Kicki Nordström (Sweden)
• Rehabilitation International - Mr. Gerard Quinn (Ireland)

National Human Rights Institutions (1)

• South African Human Rights Commission - Ms. Charlotte McClain

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