Promotion and awareness of disability issues

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It also provided training for leaders in the field of disability and contributed information and training materials on disability issues from a human rights perspective.

Lectures and workshops were held on a variety of issues, including causes of disability, prevention of disability and caring for mentally retarded and disabled children.

The Netherlands established a three year task force for the promotion of disability issues.

Medical boards for disability and employment decide on issues connected with granting this benefit.

An intergovernmental policy working group has been established at MMD to draft policies on disability issues.

Inclusion in all curricula of the need to raise awareness and provide information on disability issues

Noting with appreciation the activities in support of disability issues carried out by non governmental organizations,

The representatives have been active in discussing disability issues with governmental delegates to United Nations meetings.

(g) Emphasizing the importance of mainstreaming disability issues as an integral part of relevant strategies of sustainable development,

Croatia created a working group to consider disability issues under its Parliamentary Committee on Human Rights and National Minorities.

Countries of the Caribbean held the Caribbean Ministerial Conference on Disability in 2004 with the aim of coordinating their regional approach to the Convention process, and to mainstream disability issues in national sectoral plans.

The centres were supported by specialists from non governmental organizations, who provided services and helped train volunteer rehabilitation workers in basic disability issues, general rehabilitation skills, prevention of disability, and motor disabilities in children.

Only 17.7 per cent of countries have no programmes for collecting and disseminating statistics and conducting research into disability issues.

Help countries that integrate disability issues into their development programmes and poverty reduction strategies to make their case to donors.

Adolescent and child protection concerns, together with HIV AIDS, disability, accident prevention and nutrition, will also continue as major issues.

The Prime Minister was accompanied on this occasion by a delegation representing Canadian non governmental organizations dealing with disability issues.

The key areas addressed in this report are as follows social policy issues, employment, poverty, homelessness, health care, disability issues, early childhood development and child care, and family violence.

The first was convened in Amman in March 2005 in conjunction with the Arab Parliamentary Symposium on Legislating Disability Issues in the Arab World, where members of the Panel shared their country experiences with legislating on disability.

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(c) Is cooperating with the International Disability Centre and the International Disability Foundation

Sweden adopted a legislative framework that called for a systematic disability perspective in legislation dealing with general issues such as social security or housing.

These categories determine the source and type of support provided and they are based on general social security disability pension, employment disability pension, IDF (Israel Defence Force) disability pension, hostile operations disability pensions, Holocaust and anti Nazi operations disability pensions, and children receiving disabled child pensions.

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6. Death and disability.