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Persons with Disabilities

Inclusive Initiatives for Persons with Disabilities in the Americas
within the Framework of the Inter-American Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Persons with Disabilities (CIADDIS)
June 15, 2016
United Nations, NY

Featured

• Preliminary results of the Working Group on Legal Capacity - Public Sector
• Preliminary results of the Working Group on Legal Capacity - Civil Society
• Authorities of OAS - UN Committees for the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Persons with Disabilities (CEDDIS) met in New York
• General Observation of the Committee about the Legal Capacity of Persons with Disabilities
• World Report on Disability (WHO)
• Report on the Program for the Protection of Vulnerable Groups in Haiti (USAID/OAS)
• Regional Diagnosis on the Exercise of Legal Capacity of Persons with Disabilities

Fourth Meeting of the CEDDIS (November 2012)

• Final Report

• Manifest of the Civil Society in the context of the Fourth Meeting of the CEDDIS

The Fourth Meeting of CEDDIS was celebrated in Santiago, Chile, on November 27-29, for the purpose of considering, among other matters, the progress made and difficulties encountered by the states in the presentation of the second report on compliance with the CIADDIS, the presentation of progress made in drawing up an instruction manual on supports and safeguards for the exercise of legal capacity by persons with disabilities, the adoption of a decision on the conclusions of the Working Group to make recommendations on the sustainability of the Technical Secretariat for the Implementation of the Program of Action for the Decade of the Americas for the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities (SEDISCAP), the report on the activities carried out by the Committee in 2012, and the sharing of successful inclusive experiences among national representatives.

Moreover, in keeping with operative paragraph 4 of resolution AG/RES. 2596 (XL-O/10), time was allowed for civil society participation, to enable its representatives to provide the Committee with any information they deemed pertinent on the measures taken by the states parties to the Convention to implement it.

This meeting was attended by the delegations from the following countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, México, Panama, Paraguay, Dominican Republic and Uruguay