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Disabled Persons Bulletin No. 2 of 1999This issue explores the basis for disability statistics and indicators, and what the United Nations has done in this area. Some thoughts about the development of global disability indicators are included. |
Bulletin des personnes handicapées, No 2, 1999Le présent numéro analyse les fondements des statistiques et indicateurs des incapacités, et fait le bilan des activités menées par les Nations Unies dans ce domaine. Il se penche également sur la question de l'élaboration d'indicateurs des incapacités à l'échelle mondiale. |
Boletín sobre los discapacitados N° 1999/2En el presente número se examina la base para la elaboración de indicadores y estadísticas sobre la discapacidad y lo que las Naciones Unidas han hecho en esa esfera. Se incluyen también algunas ideas acerca de la elaboración de indicadores mundiales sobre la discapacidad. |
This issue contains the report of the United Nations Consultative Expert Group Meeting on International Norms and Standards Relating to Disability, convened by the United Nations in cooperation with Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California at Berkeley, and the World Institute on Disability (Oakland, California) at Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California at Berkeley, from 8 to12 December 1998.
This issue of the Bulletin presents an overview of the international normative frameworks relating to disability and discusses their application in the regional and national contexts. A draft compilation of international legal norms and standards on disabilities has been prepared by the Programme on Disability of the United Nations Secretariat to promote wider application of the international norms and standards to promote the rights of persons with disabilities in the broader human rights framework.
This issue focuses on the third review and appraisal of the World Programme of Action concerning Disabled Persons and the 1997 International Day of Disabled Persons. At its fifty-second session, in 1997, the General Assembly considered the report of the Secretary-General on the third review and appraisal. There was a lively and productive debate on the topic; 44 Governments sponsored a draft resolution on further action and suggested privatization in the disability field. The draft was adopted by the Assembly on 12 December 1997, as resolution 52/82.
This special issue of the Bulletin is devoted to reporting on the Global Workshop on Children with Disabilities, which was held at Washington, D.C. from 5 to 7 February 1997. The Bulletin also reviews a number of other activities in the
field, including the discussion of the report of the Special Rapporteur on Disability by the Commission for Social Development at its thirty-fifth session.
This double issue of the Bulletin focuses on two major events in which the Division for Social Policy and Development of the United Nations Secretariat participated: the Third Paralympic Congress and the 1996 observation of the International Day of Disabled Persons.
This issue of the Bulletin focuses on the work of the Special Rapporteur on Disability of the Commission for Social Development. Mr. Bengt Lindqvist, related to the circulation of his second questionnaire to Governments on monitoring the implementation of the Standard Rules on Equalization of Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities. It also includes brief reports on preparations for the Tenth Paralympic Games and the Third Paralympics Congress, which will be held in Atlanta, United States of America, and on selected activities of the non-governmental community.
This double issue of the Bulletin contains reports on the discussion of disability policies and programmes at the World Summit for Social Development and the fiftieth session of the United Nations General Assembly. The Bulletin also includes a feature article on the land mines crisis and a brief review of 1995 project cycle activities of the United Nations Voluntary Fund on Disability.
- Background
- Opening and guest statements
- Mr. Stephen F. Mosley (Academy for Educational Development)
- Ambassador Benny Kimberg (DANIDA)
- Ms. Fay Chung (UNICEF)
- Mr. John Langmore (United Nations Secretariat)
- Working Group sessions
- Working Group I. Family involvement for children with disabilities
- Working Group II. Coordinating services for economic development
- Working Group III. Coordinating services for social development
- Working Group IV. Public awareness and information sharing
- Working Group V. Protection and rights of children with disabilities
- Concurrent sessions
- Family involvement for children with disabilities
- Coordinating education and health programmes
- Public awareness and information sharing
- Protection and rights of children with disabilities
- Pre-workshop activities
- NGO Statement
- Special contribution by Dr. Eustace, Kyroussis, Head of Mission of Medicins Sans Frontieres of Belgium: We must not forget the handicapped people in Vardenis institutions
- Statement by DA (Yes We Can) International: The wheelchair of the future - today
- Propagation of the concept of community-based rehabilitation in Sri Lanka
- Note on People First of Alaska International Fourth People First Conference (Anchorage, Alaska, April 1998)
- United States National Council on Disability honours Bengt Lindqvist
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