Expert Group Meeting-cum-Stakeholder Consultation to Review the Implementation of the Asian and Pacific Decade of Disabled Persons, 2003-2012: The Biwako Millennium Framework for Action
The Social Development Division of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) is organizing an Expert Group Meeting-cum- Stakeholder Consultation to Review the Implementation of the Asian and Pacific Decade of Disabled Persons, 2003-2012: The Biwako Millennium Framework for Action, from 23 to 25 June 2010 in Bangkok. Key objectives of the Meeting include: To review the achievements and lessons learnt as well as the remaining challenges from the second Asian and Pacific Decade of Disabled Persons; and To advise the ESCAP secretariat on the way forward beyond the 2012 period bearing in mind the High-level Intergovernmental Meeting to review and conclude the second Asian and Pacific Decade of Disabled Persons in 2012. Date: 23-25 June 2010 Venue: Conference Room 3, United Nations Conference Centre (UNCC), Bangkok
- Documents
- Provisional agenda
- Aide- Mémoire
- Tentative Programme
- Guideline for participants
- Information note for participants
Background document prepared by the ESCAP secretariat
- Agenda item 4: Assessment of the achievements thus far of the Asian and Pacific Decade of Disabled Persons, 2003-2012, and the remaining challenges
- Agenda item 5: Review of the tentative outline of the study on persons with disabilities in Asia and the Pacific to be launched at the 2012 High-level Intergovernmental Meeting
- Agenda item 6: Proposals on the way forward after 2012
Other useful reference documents:
| The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and its Optional Protocol |  PDF |
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| Biwako Millennium Framework for Action: towards an Inclusive, Barrier-free and Rights-based Society for Persons with Disabilities in Asia and the Pacific (E/ESCAP/APDDP/4/Rev.1), 24 January 2003 | PDF |
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| Review of the Implementation of the Biwako Millennium Framework for Action (E/ESCAP/APDDP(2)/1*), 22 August 2007 | PDF |
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| Partnership: Key to the successful implementation of the Biwako Millennium Framework for Action (E/ESCAP/APDDP(2)/INF/1), 13 September 2007, | PDF |
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| Strengthening the Implementation of the Biwako Millennium Framework for Action in the Pacific Subregion (E/ESCAP/APDDP(2)/INF/2), 24 August 2007 | PDF |
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| Biwako Plus Five: Further efforts towards an inclusive, barrier-free and rights-based society for persons with disabilities in Asia and the Pacific, report prepared for the High-level Intergovernmental Meeting on the Midpoint Review of the Asian and Pacific Decade of Disabled Persons, 2003-2012 (E/ESCAP/APDDP(2)/2), 13 November 2007 | PDF |
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| Reducing Disparities and Exclusion: Building on Inclusive Society by Addressing the Exclusion of Persons with Disabilities, Item 6(b), Committee on Social Development (E/ESCAP/CSD/6), 1 August 2008 | PDF |
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