Working Group for the Program of Action

Inputs to the Program of Action Project

On August 31st, 2006, in response to resolution AG/RES. 2230 (XXXVI-O/06), the Committee on Juridical and Political Affairs of the OAS Permanent Council installed a Working Group to Prepare a Program of Action for the Decade of the Americas for the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities (2006-2016).

The Working Group held its first meeting on October 13, 2006 and is accordance to the same resolution, on December 12, 2006, it held, at OAS headquarters, a Special Meeting to receive inputs on the Draft Program of Action from the Member States of the Organization, from the pertinent OAS organs, agencies, and entities, from other regional and international bodies, and from civil society organizations, including organizations of persons with disabilities and their families.

Based on these inputs and on request of the Chair of the Working Group, the Department of International Law of the OAS consolidated a draft project of the Program of Action, which served as the basis for the negotiations within the Working Group (CAJP/GT/DDD-34/07 rev.1). The Group completed its work in April 2007 and submitted the project for approval by the General Assembly, which adopted the Program of Action for the Decade of the Americas for the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities (2006 - 2016) on June 5th, 2007, during its 37th ordinary meeting, held in Panamá.