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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

First Meeting of the CEDDIS Working Group (October2010)

Documents:

Project of Parameters to establish starting points, set goals and measure progress by States in fulfilling the Inter-American Convention* - prepared by the Working Group established during the CEDDIS Meeting in Brasilia, 2008, by representatives of Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Costa Rica, Mexico, Panama and Venezuela, CEDDIS/doc.41/08, July 29, 2008.

Proposal for Parameters to establish starting points, set goals and measure progress by States in fulfilling the Inter-American Convention for the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Persons with Disabilities* - prepared by the Executive Secretariat, National Disability Fund, Chile, in November 2008.

Reciprocity relations between the Inter-American Convention for the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Persons with Disabilities and the Program of Action for the Decade of the Americas for the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities* - prepared by the Technical Secretariat of the Committee CEDDIS/doc.17/rev.1, March 16, 2010.

Report No. 3: Proposed Methodologies for Monitoring the Implementation of the Inter-American Convention for the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Persons with Disabilities* - written by Ricardo Villa Cifuentes, October 25, 2010.

Final Report: First Meeting of the Working Group of the Committee for the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Persons with Disabilities (CEDDIS)* - prepared by the Department of Special Legal Programs of the OAS, Washington D.C., October 25 and 26 2010, pp. 39-46.

Declaration of Interdiction* - reference document prepared by the Department of Special Legal Programs

* document available only in Spanish