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

Eighth session
15-16 June 2004
United Nations Conference Centre, Bangkok

PROVISIONAL AGENDA

15 June 2004

09:00 – 10:30 hours

1. Meetings of Task Forces on:

(a) Information and Communication Technology (ICT) --- Room "G"

(b) Education of All Children and Youth with Disabilities (EFA) --- Room "H"

11:00 – 12:30 hours

(c) Vocational Rehabilitation, Employmen and Poverty Alleviation--- Room "G"

(d) Women with Disabilities--- Room "H"

13:30 – 15:00 hours

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

(f) Timor Leste and Afghanistan--- Room "G"

15:00 – 16:00 hours

(g) Proposed International Convention on Persons with Disabilities--- Room "H"

16 June 2004

09:00 – 16:00 (Conference #4)

2. Eighth session of the TWG-DC, Plenary Session

3. Adoption of the Agenda

4. Confirmation of Minutes of the seventh session of the Thematic Working Group on Disability-related Concerns, held 1-2 December 2003

5. Matters arising from the Minutes

6. Task Force action reports

7. Reports of APDF on its First Session of the Executive Committee, held on 14 June 2004, UNCC, Bangkok

8. Reports of specific action plans towards implementation of the BMF to December 2004 (UNESCAP, ILO, WHO, UNICEF)

9. Other matters