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>Subject: [Bioethics] Arab Organization of Disabled People conference report Part 1 (fwd)
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>From: National Association for the Rights of Disabled People in Lebanon
>DPI Lebanon
> Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 9:35 AMSubject: AODP conference report
> Dear Friends, Greetings from Lebanon.You find enclosed my report regarding the
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>conference on disability, held in Lebanon in the period between 2-5 October
>2002. Sincerely Yours Dr. Nawaf KabbaraPresidentArab Organization of Disabled
>People(AODP)
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>ARAB CONFERENCE ON DISABILITY 2-5 OCTOBER 2002
> NARRATIVE REPORT
>
>
>Introduction
>
>More than 4000 newly disabled persons are the outcome of violence that is still
>taking place in Palestine since the outbreak of the last Intifada in September
>2000. An additional similar number may be the result of the UN sanction on Iraq
>and this number may need to be multiplied by ten if war against Iraq erupts in
>the region. . All these events show clearly how important is the work for the
>promotion of the human rights principles in the region and for that of people
>with disability in particular. In fact, these are the motives that made both
>the Arab League an the Arab Organization of Disabled people joined hand and work
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>for the launching and the implementation of an Arab decade of disabled people in
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>the Arab region. The reality of the matter clearly shows that if one would like
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>to cross over the Arab World from the Morocco region to the Gulf, one can come
>out with the following observations. We have an increase in the number of
>disabled people as a result of violence in Algeria, Sudan, Iraq and Palestine.
>Disability is also growing as a result of poverty and mal nutrition. This can
>be found in Egypt, Sudan, Somalia, Djibouti and Yemen. A third source of
>disability is blood marriage, a very common tradition in most Arab countries,
>which is leading to an increase in mental disability across the Arab world. All
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>thee factors show clearly the need for a collective and concerted effort to
>promote preventive policies, rehabilitation services and disability rights all
>over the region. This is why the Arab League and AODP worked hard to get the
>Arab Council of the ministers of Social Affairs to agree on such a commitment.
>Such an endeavor proved to be a success when the ministers agreed in their Cairo
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>meeting of 2001 to organize, in partnership with AODP, an Arab conference in the
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>year 2002 to discuss and approve the terms of an Arab decade on disability.
>Such a step is directed to put the Arab World in the World map concerning
>disability politics after the launching of the International decade on
>disability in 1983 followed by both the Asia pacific decade in 1992 and the
>African decade in the year 1999.
>
>
>The Conference on Disability in the Arab World,
>Reality and Hope: Launching an Arab Decade for People with Disabilities
>2003 to 2012
>
>
>The conference took place in the period between the 2d and the 5th of October
>2002. The Arab League and the Arab Organization of Disabled People (AODP) in
>collaboration with the Lebanese ministry of social affairs and the Economic and
>Social Commission for West Asia ESCWA joined together in organizing the event.
>This conference was held at the United Nations House in Beirut under the
>auspices of the Lebanese President of the Republic General Emile Lahoud. In
>addition to the four above mentioned institutions, all of the Arab Council for
>Childhood and Development, the Arab Gulf Program for Nations Development
>Organizations, Norwegian People’s Aid, Human Concern International, Mennonite
>Central Committee, Diakonia, Medical Aid for the Palestinians, the United
>Nations Development Program, the Lebanese Council for Disabled People, the
>National Association for the Rights of Disabled People in Lebanon and the Forum
>of the Handicapped in North Lebanon joined as major partners in this project.
>The objective of the conference was to discuss and finalize a proposed draft for
>
>an Arab decade of disabled people: 2003-2012. 19 Arab countries attended the
>conference and some three hundred participants including the Head of the Arab
>Council of Ministers of Social Affairs, the Syrian minister of labor and social
>affairs, Ghada El-Jabi, and six general directors of some Arab Ministries of
>Social Affairs. Around one hundred people with disabilities representing
>disabled people organizations in the Arab World and members of AODP attended in
>addition to more than one hundred Arab NGOs active in the field of disability.
>Disabled Peoples International was also present in the person of Jean Luc Simon
>vice president of the European region and member of the World Council of the
>organization.
>
>In four days sessions, the conferee discussed ten axes of the proposed decade.
>These were the following: legislation, health, education, employment,
>accessibility, women with disability, children with disability, sports and
>leisure, media and disability, poverty, globalization and disability.
>
>The conference procedure included morning sessions where experts presented their
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>papers followed by a commentator on each one of the axes. After which the
>conferee were distributed on their will into working session to discuss the
>reports and come out with their own amendments and propositions concerning each
>one of the ten above mentioned axes. In the three first days ten experts
>resented the papers dealing with the ten axes. Participants were divided over
>ten separate debate groups each discussing one of the axes presented in the
>morning working sessions. The results were the passing of the proposed decade
>with some amendments (please review the final draft of the decade). The fourth
>day witnessed the concluding session where the final drat of the decade was
>adopted.
> Ambassador Ahmad Adel of the Arab League headed the session. Ms. Badiaa
>Ismael of the Administrative Secretariat of the Arab League read out the Arab
>Decade for People with Disabilities, which was approved by consensus in addition
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>to the recommendations and proposals. The full text of the decade and the
>recommendation is attached below.
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>Conclusion
>
>Following the conference, the Arab League secretariat of social affairs
>presented the draft proposal to the yearly conference of the Arab ministers of
>social affairs that took place in December, 2002 in Cairo. As a result, the
>meeting agreed to launch the decade in the year 2004 after giving each country a
>
>six months period to discuss the proposed decade and present their suggestions
>concerning the implementation and priority of the axes. In addition, a
>delegation from AODP met with the Arab League General Secretary Amro Moussa
>where they discussed the results of the Arab ministerial meeting and agreed on a
>
>new strategy of action including rearing a series of regional meetings and
>seminars among ministries, DPO’s and NGO’s dealing with disability in the
>different Arab regions to speed u the finalization of the final draft of the
>decade and develop the strategy for its implementation.
>
>
>The Arab Decade for People with Disabilities: 2003-2012
>The member countries of the Arab League,
>Out of their noble values, religious, spiritual and cultural heritage;
>In keeping with the laws expressed through divine missions that promoted the
>status and dignity of humans, and made humans better than other creatures;
>In guidance by international conventions, agreements, laws, United Nations
>decisions and the recommendations of world conferences held during the final
>decade of the last century, which asserted the rights of humans to liberal and
>decent lives;
>With commitment to the covenant of the Arab League, the Arab Convention of
>Social Work, the strategy of social work in Arab countries, Children’s Rights
>Convention, The Arab Declaration of the Rights of Family, and the Arab Strategy
>for Health Development;
>For the completion of Arab legislative efforts for the purposes of care and
>development, in the field of securing the rights of people with disabilities as
>well as their integration within their communities as they form an important
>part of its own fabric;
>With full conviction that people with disabilities are endowed with abilities
>and potential that will make them effectively participate with other social
>groups in achieving comprehensive development of the Arab World (which guides
>Arab citizens and works for them), in particular if they have equal
>opportunities and suitable training and rehabilitation conditions;
>With the perception that our Arab Nation enjoys great potential as regards
>confronting challenges and building a coherent society in terms of rights and
>duties, and without discrimination as a result of sex, religion, race, ethnic
>origin or disability;
>In view of our conviction that the disability issue is a social cause, which
>need to be confronted by mutually integrated efforts of governments, NGOs,
>private sector, people with disabilities and their families;
> In anticipation of the resulting increase in the numbers and proportion of
>people with disabilities due to the political, economic and social circumstances
>
>under which our Arab society lives, and the conditions of occupation, war and
>siege that many of our countries confront;
> And for the satisfaction of our Arab nation’s need to develop a framework for
>the efforts made in the field of rehabilitating, caring for and developing of
>the disabled,
>Issue the following Arab Decade for people with disabilities 2003-2012.
>Objectives
>- Changing society’s view of disability and that of people with
>disabilities of themselves;
>- Making the disability issue one of the priorities of Arab governments, and
>allocating the necessary funds for that cause;
>- Giving people with disabilities and their companions discounts of no less than
>
>fifty per cent for land, sea and air transportation when moving within any Arab
>country or across countries;
>- Granting customs facilities and exemptions for aids and necessary equipment
>that make the lives of the disabled easier, and facilitate their integration
>within their community;
>- Supporting and facilitating the formation of disabled people organizations,
>which must be represented in the higher councils for disability so as to
>guarantee their active participation in drawing up policies, programs and plans
>to raise the standards of living of people with disabilities;
>- Forming or activating the role and performance of higher committees or
>councils for rehabilitation, which are responsible for drawing up national
>policies, plans and programs that help raise the standards of living of people
>with disabilities;
>- Developing the methods of measuring the numbers of disabled people according
>to age, sex, geographical location, kind of disability by means of issuing
>disability cards, regular censuses, and field research and studies;
>- Developing and improving existing government and non-government services and
>programs to satisfy the needs of people with disabilities;
>- Unifying the terminology, definitions and classifications of disability;
>- Making use of modern technology in the programs of training and rehabilitation
>
>of people with disabilities;
>- Supporting the families of people with disabilities financially and morally,
>while providing them with information and the necessary modern technologies;
>- Carrying out research and studies about the disability issue, while securing
>the needed funding for such work and highlighting the disabilities of
>progressive development;
>- Developing the potential and skills of those working with the disabled in the
>fields of educational, social, psychological, medical and occupational
>rehabilitation and therapy;
>- Guaranteeing the suitable circumstances for the successful implementation of
>inclusion (inclusive integration) of people with disabilities in regular
>classes, within community, workplaces, houses, social, cultural and sports
>clubs;
>- Securing the representation of disabled at the level of local authorities, as
>well as the parliament and at all other levels’;
>- Limiting registration for boarding institutions for the disabled to those
>severe handicaps and of extraordinary circumstances till the right circumstances
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>for their integration within community become conducive.
>
>continued in Part 2.
>
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