UN Human Rights Council
Fourth session
12 March to 30 March 2007
at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland
Monday, 26 March 2007
Webcast http://www.un.org/webcast/unhrc/archive.asp?go=070326
15:00 - 18:00 - 23rd Plenary Meeting
Luis Alfonso de Alba
President of the Human Rights Council
Special event: Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Louise Arbour
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
H. E.Mr. Don MacKay
Permanent Representative of New Zealand and Chair of the UN Ad Hoc Committee on the UN
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Ms. Sheikh Hissa Khalika bin Ahmed al-Thani
United Nations Special Rapporteur on Disability
Mr. Monthian Buntan
President of the Thailand Association of the Blind
Mr. Lex Grandia
Representative of the International Disability Caucus
http://www.un.org/webcast/unhrc/archive.asp?go=070326
Tentative programme for the Opening for Signature Ceremony of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)
30 March 2007, United Nations Secretariat, New York
Hopefully Webcast of CRPD Signing ceremony 9.30am 30th March (New York time -4GMT) 11.30pm AustralianEST.
Check http://www.un.org/webcast/
check archive next day
Please check for updates
General Assembly Hall: Opening for Signature Ceremony
9:30
Opening of the Meeting
9:40
High Level Statements from:
. Deputy Secretary-General
. High Commissioner for Human Rights
. Mexico
. Ecuador
. New Zealand
. Civil Society representative
10:15
United Nations Legal Counsel opens the Convention and its Optional Protocol for Signature and Ratification
Member States sign the Convention and Optional Protocol (and can ratify at the same time)
Conference Room 4: High Level Inter-active Dialogue
"From vision to action: the road to implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities"
15:00
Chair opens the Meeting
15:10
Opening address by the High Commissioner for Human Rights
15:20
Member State cross-regional high-level addresses
15:50
Inter-active discussion with all delegations
18:00
Meeting closes
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