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Dear All,

The Working Group of the Ad Hoc Committee
on the Convention on the Rights of Persons with
Disabilities met from 5 to 16 January and produced
the draft convention, which is to be submitted to the
third Ad Hoc Com. meeting in May.
The draft is availalbe at
http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/enable/rights/ahcwgreport.htm
So the negotiations are to begin seriously now.
If you are interested in the detailed discusssions during the
process, please visit Landmine Survivors Network, which
has been doing a great job of taking notes at
http://www.rightsforall.org/updates2004.php

My posting is to ask clarification for the para. 3 of the draft artilce 7,
on equality and non-discrimination, which states as follows;

"Discrimination does not include a provision, criterion or practice that is
objectively and demonstrably justified by the State Party by a legitimate
aim and the means of achieving that aim are reasonable and necessary."

I do not understand the connection of
"and the means of achieving that aim are reasonable and necessary" to the
rest of the sentence.

Any assistance is greatly valued.

NAGASE Osamu
University of Tokyo

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