The CRPD Committee’s 10th session took place from 2 to 13 September. It was formally opened on Monday 2 September. During the first week of the 10th session, interactive dialogues were held with Austria, Australia and El Salvador.
During the second week, the Committee held its first ever meeting with States Parties, as well as adopted lists of issues on Azerbaijan, Costa Rica and Sweden. The 10th session was officially closed on Friday 13 September.
The Committee met in closed sessions to adopt the Concluding Observations on Austria, Australia and El Salvador as well as the list of issues on Azerbaijan, Costa Rica and Sweden.
The Committee also adopted their first draft General Comments on Article 12 on equal recognition before the law and Article 9 on accessibility, as well as launched a call for comments on those initial drafts setting a deadline of 31 January 2014 for contributions to be submitted in English, French or Spanish to crpd [at] ohchr.org. Further information and instructions are available on the Committee’s website dedicated to General Comments.
All public sessions, including the opening, reviews of Austria, Australia and El Salvador, and the meeting with States Parties were webcast live by IDA and have been archived for subsequent viewing.
The 11th session will take place from 31 March to 11 April 2014 during which the Committee will review Azerbaijan, Costa Rica and Sweden. A pre-sessional week will be held from 14 to 17 April 2014 during which lists of issues will be adopted on Belgium, Denmark, Ecuador, Korea, Germany, Mexico and New Zealand, for which the following country rapporteurs have been designated respectively: Lotfi Ben Lallahom, Martin Babu Mwesigwa, Carlos Rios Espinosa, Monthian Buntan, Diane Mulligan, Ana Pelaez Narvaez and Ron McCallum.
10th session related documents and information:
- 10th session website
- Programme of work of 10th session
- Concluding Observations on Austria, Australia and El Salvador
- List of issues on Azerbaijan, Costa Rica and Sweden
- Draft General Comment on Article 12
- Draft General Comment on Article 9
- Views adopted in individual communication- Zsolt Bujdosó and five others v Hungary
- Committee’s press release on Syria
- Opening of 10th session
- Reviews of Austria, Australia and El Salvador
- Meeting with States Parties
- Closing of 10th session
- Case summary of Zsolt Bujdosó and five others v Hungary
- Submission on Austria by the Austrian NGO delegation: response to the list of issues and recommendations;
- Submission on Australia by the Australian Civil Society Parallel Report Group: Response to list of issues and recommendations: English and Spanish;
- Submission on Australia by Women with Disabilities Australia: report and summary;
- Submission on El Salvador by the Mesa Permanente de Personas con Discapacidad la Procuraduría de Defensa de los Derechos Humanos (PDDH) de El Salvador: Spanish;
- Submission on Azerbaijan by the Union of Disabled People Organisations (UDPO) for the list of issues;
- Submission on Costa Rica by the DPO coalition for list of issues: Spanish and English;
- Submissions on Sweden by the Women and Disability in Sweden Forum, and the Swedish Disability Federation: Parallel report and list of issues submission.
- Opening of 10th session
- English
- Spanish & International sign
- Review of Austria
- English
- Spanish & International sign
- Review of Australia
- English
- Spanish, International sign and Australian national sign language (Auslan)
- Review of El Salvador
- Spanish
- English, international sign and Salvadoran national sign language (LESSA)
- Meeting with States Parties
- English
- Spanish & international sign
11th session related documents and information:
- 11th session and 12th pre-session
- Deadline for submissions for state reviews and list of issues- 28 February 2014
- Accreditation deadline – 26 March 2014
Compilation of the Committee’s Concluding Observations and List of Issues:
As announced at the Committee’s public closing session, IDA has published a compilation of the Committee’s Concluding Observations and List of Issues adopted to date, presented per CRPD provision. This compilation serves as a tool for DPOs, civil society, States and others to have a more holistic view of the Committee’s work and to render more accessible and transparent the Committee’s interpretations per provision to date. Those Concluding Observations and List of Issues adopted at the 10th session will also shortly be incorporated into the present compilation.
