UNITED NATIONS REGIONAL COORDINATION MECHANISM
THEMATIC WORKING GROUP ON DISABILITY-RELATED CONCERNS

Seventh session
1-2 December 2003
United Nations Conference Centre, Bangkok

PROVISIONAL AGENDA

1 December 2003

09:00 – 10:30 hours

1. Meetings of Task Forces on:

(a) Information and Communication Technology (ICT)

(b) Education of All Children and Youth with Disabilities (EFA)

11:00 – 12:30 hours

(c) Employment

(d) Women with Disabilities

13:30 – 15:00 hours

(e) Self-help Organizations of Persons with Disabilities (SHOs)

(f) East Timor and Afghanistan

15:00 – 16:00 hours

(g) Proposed International Convention on Persons with Disabilities

2 December 2003

09:00 – 16:00

2. Seventh session of the TWGDC, Plenary Session

3. Adoption of the Agenda

4. Confirmation of Minutes of the sixth session of the Thematic Working Group on Disability-related Concerns, held 5 June 2003

5. Matters arising from the Minutes

6. Task Force action reports

7. Reports of specific action plans towards implementation of the BMF to December 2004 (UNESCAP, APCD, APDF, DPI/AP, CDD, Inclusion International.)

8. UNESCAP Report on 59th Commission session and regional meetings on an International Convention to Promote and Protect the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities, held in Bangkok in August and October, and in Beijing in November 2003.

9. Other matters