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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.
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Fifth Conference of States Parties: Results of the Election to the CRPD Committee
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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July-August Issue of the IDA Disability Rights Bulletin is Out
Please click the links below to have access the July-August Issue of the IDA Disability Rights Bulletin: PDF version or
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Civil Society CRPD Forum 2012 (Programme and Background Document)
On 11 September, the day prior to the Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) (12-14 September 2012), IDA and UN DESA are co-chairing the Civil Society CRPD Forum (CSF), which is a full day event open to all DPOs and NGOs (previously registered at the Fifth Conference of States Parties) committed to the implementation of the CRPD.
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Programme of Work of 8th Session of CRPD Committee is Out
The Secretariat of the CRPD Committee has published the programme of work of the eighth session of the CRPD Committee.