Disability Convention Resources

Ad Hoc Committee Working Group

• List of NGO Representatives

• Decision of the Ad Hoc Committee to Establish Working Group (in its Report)

• NGO Resolution on Selection of Representatives [link coming shortly]

• Update from UN meeting: Success!

• SCI Press Release on UN Meeting

• Draft Text of Disability Treaty
  

Updated Texts of the Ad Hoc Committee

     Ad Hoc 4 Report

     Ad Hoc 5 Advance Report

WNUSP’s Advocacy Materials on the Disability Convention

• Position Paper for Mexico City Expert Group Meeting

• Declaración para la reunión de expertos en la Ciudad de Mexico

• Comments on the Mexican Draft 

• Position Paper for Second Ad Hoc Committee Meeting 

• WNUSP Treaty Text Proposal 

• Propuesto de texto para incluir en la convención 

• Intervention by Gabor Gombos at Second Ad Hoc Committee Meeting 

• Contribution to the ESCAP Meeting

• Treaty-talk email list

• WNUSP position on freedom from detention based on disability

• WNUSP position on freedom from forced interventions

• WNUSP position on autonomy and self-determination

• Declaración de la RMUSP sobre la autonomía y la autodeterminación

• Legal Capacity Note

• Article 9 Caucus Draft

• Article 9 Information Sheet

• Legal Capacity Plenary Address

• Article 10 Caucus Draft

• Article 10 Information Sheet

• Article 11 Caucus Draft

• Article 11 Information Sheet

• Article 11 Plenary Address

• Article 11 Supplementary Paper

• Article 15 Caucus Draft

• Article 15 Information Sheet

• Alert

• Ad Hoc 6 Issues

• Overview in power point format

Information about the Ad Hoc Committee and Other Meetings about the Convention

• Official UN Website on Ad Hoc Committee Meetings

  • Sitio oficial de la ONU para las reuniones del Comite Especial – pocos documentos en español

  • Recursos en español – Instituto Interamericano sobre Discapacidad 

• Expert Group Meeting in Mexico City

  • Reunión de expertos en la Ciudad de Mexico 

• African Regional Consultative Conference 

• Americas Regional Meeting 

  • Reunión de las Americas 

• Arab Regional Meeting 

• Asia-Pacific Regional Meeting 

• High Commissioner for Human Rights - Disability Convention

• Daily Summaries from First and Second Sessions of the Ad Hoc Committee:

  • First Session (2002)

  • Second Session (2003)

• Síntesis de las deliberaciones del comite especial en la primera reunion (2002), recopilada por M.V. Reina 

  • Primera semana 

  • Segunda semana 

• Disabilityconvention email list

• Conventionondisability email list

• La lista discapacidad_ddhh

Additional Resources on Human Rights and Disability

• UN Focal Point on Persons with Disabilities 

• High Commissioner for Human Rights – Human Rights and Disability

• Compilation of International Human Rights Treaties and Declarations 

• Resources for Human Rights Advocacy – International Service for Human Rights

Regional Resources on Human Rights and Disability

• Inter-American Human Rights Documents 

  • Documentos en materia de derechos humanos en el sistema interamericana 

• Inter-American Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Persons with Disabilities 

  • Convención Interamericana para la Eliminación de Todas las Formas de Discriminación contra las Personas con Discapacidad 

• Inter-American Commission on Human Rights 

  • Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos 

• European Convention on Human Rights

  • Convenio Europeo de Derechos Humanos 

• European Court of Human Rights

• UNESCAP (Asia-Pacific) Disability Links 

• Asian & Pacific Decade of Disabled Persons 

Other Organizations’ Resources on the Convention

• Inter-American Institute on Disability 

  • Instituto Interamericano sobre la Discapacidad 

• Disabled Peoples International 

  • Organización Mundial de Personas con Discapacidad 

• Rehabilitation International 

• Landmine Survivors Network