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 DISABILITY
PROGRAMME
Some 400 million people with disabilities live in the Asian
and Pacific region. The majority of them are excluded from
many social opportunities. UNESCAP assists governments and
self-help organizations to create inclusive, barrier-free
and rights-based society for persons with different disabilities.
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Biwako Plus Five,
adopted at the High-level Intergovernmental Meeting on the
Midpoint Review of the Asian and Pacific Decade of Disabled
Persons, 2003-2012  |
| High
Level Intergovernmental Meeting on the Mid-point Review of
the Asian Pacific Decade of Disabled Persons, 19-21 September
2007, Bangkok, Thailand |
| Convention
on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities was adopted on
13 December 2006 by the UN General Assembly. The Convention
alongwith its Optional Protocol was opened for signature
and ratification on 30 March 2007.
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Asian And Pacific Decade of Disabled Persons 2003-2012 |
| UNESCAP has organized
a series of activities on the elaboration of a comprehensive
and integral international convention on the protection
and promotion of the rights and dignity of persons with
disabilities as well as workshops and meetings on policy
measures, information networking and promoting awareness.
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| Biwako Millennium
Framework |
| Towards an Inclusive,
Barrier-free and Rights-based Society for Persons with Disabilities
in Asia and the Pacific
- Biwako Millennium Framework (BMF)
- Summary paper of BMF
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Asian And Pacific Decade of Disabled Person 1993-2002 |
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Asian and Pacific region has by far the largest number of
people with disabilities in the world. Most of them are
poor, their concerns unknown and their rights overlooked.
In order to address the major issues that disabled persons
face and thereby enhance the quality of their lives, the
governments of the Asian and Pacific region declared the
period 1993 - 2002 as the Asian and Pacific Decade of Disabled
Persons
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