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APCD Empowerment Newsletter, March 2013

Informal Session of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) on the Working Group on the Asian and Pacific Decade of Persons with Disabilities (2013-2022), Thailand, 23 April 2013

The "Informal Session of Civil Society Organizations on the Working Group on the Asian and Pacific Decade of Persons with Disabilities, 2013-2022" was held on 23 April 2013 at the United Nations Convention Centre in Bangkok, Thailand. The Meeting was participated by representatives from 18 civil society organizations in the Asia-Pacific region. A Joint Statement of Civil Society Organizations to the Committee of the Whole II was made as an outcome of the Meeting. The following 15 civil society organizations, which are ready to serve as full members of the Working Group, were presented to the Commission in the alphabet order.

  1. ASEAN Disability Forum
  2. Asia-Pacific Development Center on Disability
  3. Asia Pacific Disability Forum
  4. Asia-Pacific DPO United
  5. Central Asian Disability Forum
  6. Digital Accessible Information System Consortium
  7. Disabled Peoples' International
  8. Inclusion International
  9. Pacific Disability Forum
  10. Rehabilitation International
  11. South Asian Disability Forum
  12. World Blind Union
  13. World Federation of the Deaf
  14. World Federation of the Deafblind
  15. World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry

Three sister civil society organizations, including the ASEAN Autism Network, the Christian Blind Mission and the Community-based Rehabilitation Asia-Pacific Network will participate in the Working Group as observers in the first half of the decade (2013-2017).

The Commission also reached consensus on sharing concerns on civil society organizations which are not members of the Working Group and working closely with government partners towards the effective implementation of the Incheon Strategy, which is the Asian and Pacific region's pioneering contribution to the High-level Meeting on Disability and Development to be held in New York on 23 September this year.

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Source: APCD Foundation
When: 12/5/2013

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