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Persons with Disabilities
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- General Observation of the Committee about the Legal Capacity of Persons with Disabilities
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Second Meeting of Head of Institutions
and Policy-Makers
for Persons with Disabilities
Final Report (only available in Spanish)
In October 2009, it was requested via the Permanent Missions of the OAS, that the Member States prepare a first report on the progress made in the implementation of the Program of Action for the Decade for the Rights and Dignity of Persons with disabilities (2006-2016), also known as PAD.
Months
later, in coordination with CONADIS Argentina,
it was convened the Second
Meeting of Heads of Institutions and Policy-Makers for Persons with Disabilities
with the main purpose of examine, in light of the reports submitted by the
Member States, the progress made by the countries, and the continent as a whole,
in the implementation of the actions of the PAD. Moreover, the participants
discussed the possibility of designing a monitoring tool to measure progress in
the implementation of this instrument, identified priority actions, and shared
experiences and best practices.
This meeting of regional authorities was held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from August 4th to 6th, 2010. The meeting was attended by the representatives of the following OAS Member States: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, United States, Haiti, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Dominican Republic and Uruguay.
