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Introduction
• More than one billion people in the world live
with some form of disability, of whom nearly
200 million experience considerable
difficulties in functioning.
• In Latin-American and the Caribbean there are
at least 80 millions person with disability and
the majority live in extreme poverty
• Across the world, people with disabilities have
poorer health outcomes, lower education
achievements, less economic participation and
higher rates of poverty than people without
disabilities. This is partly because people with
disabilities experience barriers in accessing services
that many of us have long taken for granted,
including health, education, employment, and
transport as well as information. These difficulties
are exacerbated in less advantaged communities.
To promote effective inclusion, there were adopted
various international instruments, which recognize
the dignity of all human beings as a fundamental
principle and state that disability does not affect
dignity:
• Inter-American Convention and Program of Action
Persons with disabilites are full rights holders
The prohibition of discriminating based on disability
The Inter-American Convention
• The Inter-American Convention for the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination against Persons with Disabilities was adopted by
the General Assembly of the OAS on June 7, 1999, and entered into force
on September 14, 2001. To date, this Convention has been signed by
20 OAS Member States and ratified by 18.
• This convention is a pioneering instrument in the Americas and
worldwide since it is responsible for providing the conceptual basis on
disability, providing a much broader regulation than contained in general
human rights instruments within the Inter-American System.
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List of rights that persons with disabilities should enjoy and under no
circumstances be deprived or restricted by reason of disability
•
Conceptual framework on disability
People with Disabilities
Achievements
1. Boosting of the American Convention on
the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination against Persons with
Disabilities “CEDDIS”
Activities
States submitted their first report on the alignment of
public policies and plans regarding the Convention
Celebration of the Third CEDDIS Meeting in El Salvador
on April 2010
Celebration of the First Meeting of Working Groups
CEDDIS in Washington DC, in October 2010.
2. Support for the Program of Action for the
Decade of the Americas for the Rights
and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities
(PAD)
States submitted their first report on the alignment of
public policies and plans regarding the PAD.
Planning and management of the reviews of the
Technical Secretariat for the Decade of the Americas for
the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities
“SEDISCAP "
Second Meeting of Directors of Institutions and Policymakers for People with Disabilitiesin Buenos Aires,
Argentina, on August 2010
People with Disabilities
Activities
3. International promotion of the two main
instruments of the Inter-American System to
guarantee the rights of people with
disabilities
Main Outcomes
Publication of 5,000 copies of the Inter-American
Convention and PAD in the four official languages of the
Organization.
Institutional support for and/or attendance of
international events of regional authorities on the
matter of disability, to broadcast the Inter-American
Convention and the PAD
Implementation of two resolutions by the OAS General
Assembly stressing the importance of the topic, AG /
Res. 2596 (Xl-O/10), AG/RES. 2598 (XL-O/10)
4. Development of Haiti Mission
Network of cooperation and collaboration whith
CONADIS representatives from Argentina, Brazil and
Dominican Republic, and civil society in order to assess
the situation of the disabled population in Haiti after
the earthquake. This group was in Haiti from April 5th
to April 20th of 2010
People with Disabilities
NEXT STEPS
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Second Request of compliance report to Member States part of the Convention
on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Persons with
Disabilities
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The Celebratory Year of "Human Rights and People with Disabilities“
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III Meeting of Heads of Institutions and Policy- makers for Persons with
Disabilities
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III Regional Meeting of Civil Society Organizations. Tentative date: October of
2011
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Presentation of comparative studies on the exercise of legal capacity of persons
with disabilities in the region
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III Meeting of Successful Inclusive Projects
Older persons
Activities
1. Implementation of two Resolutions by
the OAS General Assembly stressing the
importance of the topic
2. Special Meeting of the Permanent Council
on Human Rights And Older Persons
Main Outcomes
AG/RES. 2455 (XXXIX-O/09) Human Rights
and Older Persons, resolution
AG/RES. 2562 (XL-O/10) Human Rights and
Older Persons
Participation of national
representatives and experts from the
academic sector and civil society, as
well as from international
organizations, who shared
information and best practices and
examined the feasibility of preparing
an inter-American Convention on the
rights of older persons
Synergies between both Conventions
• Objectives:
Inter-American Convention
1999
United Nations Convention
2006
Article II
The objectives of this Convention
are to prevent and eliminate all
forms of discrimination against
persons with disabilities and to
promote their full integration into
society.
Article 1
The purpose of the present
Convention is to promote, protect
and ensure the full and equal
enjoyment of all human rights and
fundamental freedoms by all
persons with disabilities, and to
promote respect for their inherent
dignity.