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Opening of the 8th Session of the CRPD Committee, 17 September 2012
Geneva, 17 September 2012 – Today the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD Committee) opens its 8th session (17-28 September 2012) in which it will review three States Parties, China Argentina and Hungary, and adopt a List of Issues on Paraguay.
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Opening of the 8th Session of the CRPD Committee, 17 September 2012
Geneva, 17 September 2012 – Today the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD Committee) opens its 8th session (17-28 September 2012) in which it will review three States Parties, China Argentina and Hungary, and adopt a List of Issues on Paraguay.
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2012 Election to the CRPD Committee, 12 September 2012
New York, 12 September 2012 - Today, during the first day of the Fifth Conference of States Parties (COP) to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) (12-14 September) the election for the CRPD Committee has taken place in which 9 of the 18 positions on the CRPD Committee were renewed.
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IDA Meets with Deputy Executive Director of UN Women, 7 September 2012
New York, 7 September 2012 - The meeting was held today on the premises of UN Women between Ms. Lakshmi Puri, Deputy Executive Director, Assistant Secretary-General for Intergovernmental Support for Strategic Partnerships of UN Women, and a delegation of the International Disability Alliance led by its Chair Yannis Vardakastanis, to discuss the challenge of mainstreaming the rights of women and girls with disabilities within the work of UN Women.