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NOTESEditorial1 United Nations General Assembly, A World Fitfor Children, A/RES/S-27/2 (paragraphs 7(3) and21), United Nations, New York, 11 October 2002.Chapter 12 United Nations Educational, Scientific andCultural Organization, World Conference onSpecial Needs Education: Access and quality,Salamanca, Spain, UNESCO, Paris, 1994. See for follow-upreports.Chapter 23 United Nations, Disability Fact Sheet,International Convention on the Rights ofPersons with Disabilities, United Nations, NewYork, 2006.4 UNICEF, Children and Disability in Transition inCEE/CIS and Baltic States, Innocenti Insight,UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, Florence,2005.5 UNICEF, ’UNICEF Gambia 2000 Annual Report’(internal document), UNICEF, Banjul, 2000.6 United Nations Statistics Division, , accessed 3 March 2007; alsoChapter 37 Cited by Persson, Ulrika, ’Have Children withDisabilities an Obvious Place in Society?’ at’Myths and Facts concerning Children withDisabilities’ conference, Malmö, 9-11 December1999; proceedings published by Rädda Barnen,Stockholm, 2000.8 Elwan, A., Poverty and Disability: A survey of theliterature, Washington, DC: World Bank, 1999.9 Inclusion International, Hear Our Voices: A globalreport: People with an intellectual disabilityand their families speak out on poverty andexclusion, Inclusion International, London, 2006,.10 Groce, N., HIV/AIDS and Disability: Capturinghidden voices, World Bank and Yale UniversityPress, New Haven, 2004.11 ’UNICEF Says Small Arms and Light WeaponsTake Young Victims: Children’, Press release,UNICEF, 2001.12 European Disability Forum, DevelopmentCooperation and Disability, EDF Policy Paper,2002, Doc. EDF 02/16 EN, .13 Wolfensohn, J. D., ’Poor, Disabled and Shut Out’,Washington Post, 3 December 2002, p. A25.14 World Bank, Social Analysis and Disability:A guidance note – incorporating disabilityinclusivedevelopment into bank-supportedprojects, Social Analysis Sectoral GuidanceNote Series, Social Development Department,World Bank, Washington, D.C., 2007. See alsoGuernsey, K., M. Nicoli, and A. Ninio, ’MakingInclusion Operational: Legal and institutionalresources for World Bank staff on the inclusionof disability issues in investment projects’, Lawand Development Working Paper Series No. 1,October 2006.15 Mainstreaming Disability in DevelopmentCooperation, an IDDC project to break thecycle of poverty and disability in developmentcooperation, financed by the EuropeanCommission, .Chapter 416 For a comprehensive account of human rightsinitiatives see Herr, S., L. Gostin, and H. Koh(eds), The Human Rights of Persons withIntellectual Disabilities: Different but equal,Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2003. Furtherbackground on disability and human rights iscontained in, for example, Lansdown, G., It IsOur World Too! Disability Awareness in Action,London, 2001; Quinn, Gerard, et al., HumanRights and Disability: The current use andfuture potential of United Nations human rightsinstruments in the context of disability, UnitedNations, Geneva, 2002, esp. ch. 8: Kilkelly,Ursula, ’Disability and Children: The Conventionon the Rights of the Child (CRC)’.17 Quinn, Gerard, et al., Human Rights andDisability, op. cit., p. 1.18 UN Human Rights Council, Implementation ofGeneral Assembly Resolution 60/251 of15 March 2006 Entitled “Human RightsCouncil”, The Right to Education of Persons withDisabilities, Report of the Special Rapporteur onthe right to education, Vernor Muñoz, DocumentSA/HRC/4/29, United Nations, New York, 19February 2007, .19 Available from United Nations, Division for SocialPolicy and Development, .20 Committee on the Rights of the Child, Sessional/Annual Report of Committee, Report on the16th Session (Geneva, 22 September-10 October 1997), CRC/C/69, para. 331.39 Promoting the Rights of Children with Disabilities Innocenti Digest No. 13
21 Blomgren, Lars, ’UN Standard Rules for Personswith Disabilities: Visions and tools in our workfor a society for all children’, delivered at ’Mythsand Facts concerning Children with Disabilities’conference, Malmö, 9-11 December 1999;proceedings published by Rädda Barnen,Stockholm, 2000.22 See to access the full report and fordetailed information on implementation of Rule 6on Education.23 Statement by Bengt Lindqvist, former UNSpecial Rapporteur on Disability (1994–2001),Ad Hoc Committee to Consider Proposals for aComprehensive and Integral Convention on theRights of Persons with Disabilities, New York,29 July–9 August 2002.24 Optional Protocol to the Convention on theRights of Persons with Disabilities, .25 Committee on the Rights of the Child, GeneralComment 9. Rights of Children with Disabilities.43rd session, Geneva, 11-29 September 2006.26 Quoted in (no date given), accessed 1 June 2007.27 UN Millennium Development Goals, ; .28 .29 Disability Knowledge and Researchforum, quoted in ,accessed 8 December 2006.30 Wiman, R. (ed.), Disability Dimension inDevelopment Action: Manual on inclusiveplanning, National Research and DevelopmentCentre for Welfare and Health in Finland(STAKES) for United Nations, 1997 and 2000.Revised version available online 2003 at .Chapter 531 This definition is based on that used by theEquality Authority, Ireland.32 Committee on the Rights of the Child, GeneralComment 9, op. cit.33 Jones, Hazel, Disabled Children’s Rights: Apractical guide, Save the Children, Stockholm,2001.34 See UNICEF, Children and Disability in Transitionin CEE/CIS and Baltic States, op. cit., pp. 25–26;see also Sammon, Elayn, Defying Prejudice,Advancing Equality 2: Children and disability inthe context of family breakdown in Central andSouth Eastern Europe and the Former SovietUnion, EveryChild, London, 2001.35 Committee on the Rights of the Child, SummaryRecord of the 418th Meeting, CRC/C/SR.418,6 October 1997.36 Groce, Nora Ellen, An Overview of Young PeopleLiving with Disabilities: Their needs and theirrights, UNICEF Programme Division (WorkingPaper Series), New York, 1999.37 See, for example, Save the Children Alliance,Disabled Children’s Rights: A CD-Rom withexamples of good practice and violations fromaround the world, available with Jones, Hazel,Disabled Children’s Rights, op. cit.38 Lansdown, G., It Is Our World Too! op. cit.39 United Nations Secretary-General’s Study onViolence against Children, Summary Reportof the Thematic Meeting on Violence againstChildren with Disabilities, 28 July 2005, UnitedNations, New York, p. 18, .40 See, for example, World Health Organization,Disability Prevention and Rehabilitation: A guidefor strengthening the basic nursing curriculum,Document WHO/RHB/96.1, Division of HealthPromotion, Education and Communication,Geneva, 1996, .41 Mittler, H., Families Speak Out: Internationalperspectives on families’ experience of disability,Brookline Books, Boston, 1994.42 Children’s Law Centre, NGO Alternative Reporton the Implementation of the Convention on theRights of the Child in the UK, CRC 31st Session,16 September-4 October 2002, . See also examples from the CEE/CISregion in UNICEF, Children and Disability inTransition in CEE/CIS and Baltic States, op. cit.43 United Nations Educational, Scientific andCultural Organization, Open File on InclusiveEducation: Support materials for managers andadministrators, UNESCO, Paris, 2001.44 Carr, J., Down’s Syndrome: Children growing up,Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1995.45 Statistic quoted in Children’s Rights Alliance forEngland, Report to the Pre-Sessional WorkingGroup of the Committee on the Rights of theChild, Preparing for Examination of the UK’sSecond Report under the CRC, 2002, .46 Saleh, Lena and Sai Väyrynen, ’InclusiveEducation: Consensus, conflict and challenges’,UNESCO, Paris, 1999.47 Centre for Information and Statistics on Labourand Social Affairs, Vietnam Child DisabilitySurvey 1998, Ministry of Labour, Invalids andSocial Affairs (MOLISA), Vietnam and UNICEF,Hanoi, 2000.48 Saleh, Lena, ’Rights of Children with SpecialNeeds: From rights to obligations andresponsibilities’, paper presented at theInternational Conference on Children’s Rights inEducation, 27–30 April 1998, Copenhagen.Innocenti Digest No. 13Promoting the Rights of Children with Disabilities40
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