Upcoming Events
1st Asia-Pacific Community-Based Rehabilitation (CBR) Congress
The World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) and the Royal Thai Government welcome you to the 1st Asia-Pacific CBR Congress, 18th - 20th February 2009, at the Prince Palace Hotel in Bangkok.
This will be the first opportunity for CBR implementers, policy-makers and representatives of disabled people's organizations (DPOs) from all over the Asia-Pacific region to share the experiences, to form a network and to be updated with the new trends in CBR within the context of the Asia and Pacific Decade of Disabled Persons (2003-2012) and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD).
The Congress will be supported by:
- International Labor Organization (ILO);
- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organizations (UNESCO);
- Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA);
- Christoffel Blinden Mission (CBM);
- Associazione Italiana Amici di Raoul Follereau (AIFO);
- The Norwegian Association of Disabled (NAD);
- Disabled Peoples' International Asia-Pacific Region (DPI/AP);
- Council of Disabled People of Thailand (CODP);
- Handicap International (HI);
- Leonard Cheshire Disability (LCD);
- International Federation of Anti-Leprosy Associations (ILEP)
- Asia-Pacific Development Center on Disability (APCD); and others.
For more information about registration, venue and program, please check www.cbr-asiapacific.org
