Workshop to Accelerate the Implementation of the Convention

1. Workshop to Accelerate the Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) 18-21 August 2011, Delhi, India Ms. Saowalak Thongkuay, Regional Development Officer, Disabled Peoples’ International Asia Pacific

2. Background • 1993-2002, the 1st Asia Pacific Decade of Person with disability ; • 2003-2012, the 2nd Asia Pacific Decade of Person with Disability • October 2002, the high-level intergovernmental meeting held in Otsu, Shiga, Japan adopted as guideline for action the “Biwako Millennium Framework for Action towards an Inclusive, Barrier free and Rights-based Society for Persons with Disabilities in Asia and the Pacific” (BMF). • BMF promotes a paradigm shift from a charity-based to a rights-based approach to disability.

3. Background (cont’)BMF

4. 5 Key strategies • Reinforcing rights based approach to disability issues; • Promoting an enabling environment and strengthening effective mechanisms for policy formulation and implementation; 3. Improving the availability and quality of data and other information on disabilities for policy formulation and implementation; 4. Promoting disability-inclusive development; 5. Strengthening comprehensive community based approaches to disability issues for the prevention of the causes of disability and for the rehabilitation and empowerment of persons with disabilities.

5. The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) • 2006 adoption of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CPRD) and its Optional Protocol. ( 21 countries ratify, 7 ratify OP )

6. Get to know CRPD

7. Timelines of BMF, MDGs and CRPD Source: ESCAP

8. Nature of the documents

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