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The Fourth Session of the Ad Hoc Committee working group meetings drafting the U.N. Convention on the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in New York will begin on August 23, 2004 and end on September 3, 2004.

The latest edition of "Convention-YES! Disability Convention News" is now available for downloading! Click on the following link to read it.

http://www.dpi.org/en/resources/publications/documents/cysum04en.doc

The Disabled Peoples' International Caribbean/North America Region (DPI NACR) has appointed Mr. Leslie A. Emanuel as its Regional Development Officer (RDO) effective June 1, 2004. Details

The Third Session of the Ad Hoc Committee working group meetings drafting the U.N. Convention on the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in New York ended on June 4, 2004.

Click here to read bulletins and daily summaries of the work being done during these two weeks of meetings.

Click here to read DPI Chairperson's Interventions.

Click here for some background on the work that was done before these meetings.

The Governments of Jamaica and Barbados jointly hosted a regional Ministerial Conference on Disability Issues. More....

DPI will be staging its 2004 World Summit from September 8-10 in Winnipeg. Click here for details.