UNITED NATIONS REGIONAL COORDINATION MECHANISM
THEMATIC WORKING GROUP ON DISABILITY-RELATED CONCERNS

Ninth session
1-2 December 2004
United Nations Conference Centre, Bangkok
PROVISIONAL AGENDA

1 December 2004

08:00 – 11:00 hours

1. Meetings of Task Forces on:

(a) Employment and Poverty Alleviation (Meeting Room A)

(b) Education of All Children and Youth with Disabilities (EFA) (Meeting Room B)

11:00 – 12:30 hours

(c) Information and Communication Technology (ICT) (Meeting Room A)

(d) Women with Disabilities (Meeting Room B)

12:30 – 13:30 hours

Lunch break

13:30 – 15:00 hours

(e) Self-help Organizations of Persons with Disabilities (SHOs) (Meeting Room A)
(f) Post Conflict Countries (Meeting Room B)

15:00 – 16:00 hours

(g) Proposed International Convention on Persons with Disabilities

(Meeting Room A)

2 December 2004

09:00 – 16:00 (Meeting Room A)

2. Ninth session of the Thematic Working Group on Disability-related Concerns (TWG-DC), plenary session

3. Adoption of the Agenda

4. Confirmation of Minutes of the eight session of the TWG-DC, held 15-16 June 2004, UNCC, Bangkok

5. Task Force action reports

6. Evaluation of achievements and shortcomings of UNESCAP activities by members of the TWG-DC and consideration of UNESCAP future work towards the mid-point review (2007) of the Asian and Pacific Decade of Disabled Persons (2003-2012) (UNESCAP)

7. Reports on the UNESCAP / Asia and Pacific Disability Forum (APDF) Workshop on Regional Follow-up to the Third and Fourth Sessions of the Ad Hoc Committee on a Comprehensive and Integral International Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities, held 11-12 October 2004, UNCC, Bangkok (APDF)

8. Matters concerning a planned APDF Second General Assembly in 2005 and the 11th TWG-DC meeting (APDF)

9. Reports on planned activities in observance of the International Day of Disabled Persons, to be held 3 December 2004, UNCC, Bangkok (UNESCAP)

10. Reports of future activities (UNESCAP, ILO, FAO, APCD)

11. Other matters