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Sent: 09 August 2002 11:28
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Subject: FW: URGENT APPEAL: DISABILITY TREATY PROCESS IN GRAVE DANGER
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From: Janet Lord [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 09 August 2002 00:13
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Subject: [DisabilityConvention] URGENT APPEAL: DISABILITY TREATY PROCESS IN
GRAVE DANGER
Allies:
THIS IS AN URGENT APPEAL
It is 7pm and we are in the halls of the United Nations where informal
negotiations about whether or not states will move forward to draft a
treaty on the human rights of people with disabilities are taking place.
The United States, and a small number of Asian states, are blocking the
call for a convention at this late hour. Mexico has asked the NGO
community to generate pressure to save this process.
Please generate emails to your governments pressing for a resolution by
the Ad Hoc Committee acknowledging the urgent need to draft a
CONVENTION.
FOR AMERICAN DISABILITY GROUPS: Please send emails to the State Dept.
and/or call (Powell, Armitage, William Wood in the Bureau of
International Organization Affairs)and the White House AS SOON AS
POSSIBLE AS THIS PROCESS CLOSES TOMORROW - FRIDAY. THE AMERICAN
DELEGATE HERE IN CHARGE OF NEGOTIATIONS IS KATE GOROVE:
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Many thanks, Richard Light, Steve Estey, Janet Lord, Rosangela
Berman-Beiler
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