残疾人权利委员会将于2013年9月2日至13日举行第十次会议（部分翻译）

残疾人权利委员会

2013年8月29日

背景发布

委员会将审议奥地利、澳大利亚和萨尔瓦多的报告


残疾人权利委员会第十届会议将于9月2日至13日在日内瓦威尔逊宫召开，在此期间，委员会将审议奥地利、澳大利亚和萨尔瓦多就这些缔约国就如何落实《残疾人权利公约》各项规定而作的报告。

9月2日（周一）上午，一名秘书长代表将启动会议。然后，委员会将通过其议程和工作方案，讨论提交的报告，并考虑其他组织事宜。委员会还将听取委员会主席就第九届和第十届会议之间所开展活动的报告，并通过第九届会议的报告。随后，委员会将听取各缔约国根据《公约》第35条而作的报告。委员会还将讨论如何加强与联合国机构、专门机构和非政府组织的合作。

当天下午，委员会将开始审议奥地利的初次报告。审议将在两次会议期间持续进行，并于9月3日（星期二）下午1点结束。然后，该委员会将于9月3日下午和9月4日上午审议澳大利亚的初次报告。委员会将于9月4日（星期三）下午3点开始审议萨尔瓦多的初次报告。9月5日（星期四）是联合国节假日，之后，该委员会将于9月6日上午10点继续审议萨尔瓦多的报告。与《公约》缔约国的公开会议将于9月10日上午10点进行，届时将讨论委员会的工作方法。

委员会将私下通过阿塞拜疆、哥斯达黎加和瑞典的初次报告的问题清单，该清单将在未来的会议中被审议。委员会亦将检验关于残疾妇女、无障碍和法律行为能力工作组的工作进展，该工作组是为起草委员会决定的一般性意见而成立的。委员会还将审议基于《公约》及其任择议定书提交的投诉以及开展的调查。

Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

Adopted on 13 December 2006 by the General Assembly, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Protocol entered into force on 3 May 2008.

The purpose of the Convention is to promote, protect and ensure the full and equal enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms by all persons with disabilities, and to promote respect for their inherent dignity. Persons with disabilities include those who have long-term physical, mental, intellectual or sensory impairments which in interaction with various barriers may hinder their full and effective participation in society on an equal basis with others.

States parties undertake to ensure and promote the full realization of all human rights and fundamental freedoms for all persons with disabilities without discrimination of any kind on the basis of disability. States Parties recognize that all persons are equal before and under the law and are entitled without any discrimination to the equal protection and equal benefit of the law. Specific measures which are necessary to accelerate or achieve de facto equality of persons with disabilities shall not be considered discrimination under the terms of the present Convention.

States parties reaffirm that every human being has the inherent right to life and have committed themselves to take all necessary measures to ensure its effective enjoyment by persons with disabilities on an equal basis with others. States Parties reaffirm that persons with disabilities have the right to recognition everywhere as persons before the law. States Parties recognize that persons with disabilities enjoy legal capacity on an equal basis with others in all aspects of life.

Each State party is obliged to submit to the Committee, through the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, a comprehensive report on measures taken to give effect to its obligations under the present Convention and on the progress made in that regard, within two years after the entry into force of the present Convention for the State Party concerned. Thereafter, States parties shall submit subsequent reports at least every four years and further whenever the Committee so requests.

States Parties to the Convention

The Convention has been signed by 155 States.  At present there are 132 States and 1 regional organization which have ratified this instrument. They are: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Canada, Cape Verde, Chile, China, Colombia, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Estonia, Ethiopia, European Union, France, Gabon, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Guinea, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Iraq, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Jordan, Kenya, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Latvia, Lesotho, Liberia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Palau, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Republic of Korea, Republic of Moldova, Romania, Russian Federation, Rwanda, San Marino, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Sudan, Swaziland, Sweden, Syrian Arab Republic, Thailand, The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Togo, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United Republic of Tanzania, Uruguay, Vanuatu, Yemen, and Zambia.

The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is the first human rights convention to provide for ratification by regional integration organizations, such as the European Union. The European Union ratified the Convention in December 2010.

Committee Membership

The members of the Committee are elected for a term of four years and shall be eligible for re-election once.

Mr. Mohammed Al-Tarawneh (Jordan), Mr. Monthian Buntan (Thailand), Ms. Maria Soledad Cisteras Reyes (Chile), Ms. Theresia DEGENER (Germany), Mr. Hyung Shik Kim (Republic of Korea), Mr. Lofti Ben Lallahom (Tunisia), Mr. Stig Langvad (Denmark), Mr. László Gábor Lovaszy (Hungary), Ms. Edah Wangechi Maina (Kenya), Mr. Ronald McCallum (Australia), Ms. Diane Mulligan (United Kingdom), Mr. Martin Babu Mwesigwa (Uganda), Ms. Safak Pavey (Turkey), Ms. Ana Pelaez Narvaez (Spain), Ms. Silvia Judith Quan-Chang (Guatemala), Mr. Carlos Rios Espinosa (Mexico), Mr. Damjan Tatic (Serbia), and Mr. Germán Xavier Torres Correa (Ecuador).

Ms. Cisternas Reyes is Chairperson.  The Vice Chairpersons are Ms. Degener, Mr. McCallum and Mr. Rios Espinosa.  Mr. Mwesigwa is the Rapporteur.

Further information is available on the Committee’s webpage.

Programme of Work

Monday, 2 September

10 a.m.                    Opening of the session
3 p.m.            Consideration of the initial report of Austria CRPD/C/AUT/1

Tuesday, 3 September

10 a.m.           Austria (continued)
3 p.m.            Consideration of the initial report of Australia CRPD/C/AUS/1

Wednesday, 4 September

10 a.m.                    Australia (continued)
3 p.m.            Consideration of the initial report of El Salvador CRPD/C/SLV/1

Thursday, 5 September

United Nations Holiday

Friday, 6 September

10 a.m.           El Salvador (continued)
3 p.m.            Closed meeting

Tuesday, 10 September

10 a.m.           Meeting with States parties to the Convention (public)
3 p.m.            Closed meeting

Friday, 13 September

10 a.m.           Closed meeting
3 p.m.            Closed meeting
5.30 p.m.        Closing (public)

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