[WSIS CS-Plenary] Fw: Congratulations to 600,000,000 PWDs!

[Hiroshi Kawamura]

A big news from Monthian.
One of WSIS follow-up actions of persons with disabilities has achieved 
another milestone.
- Hiroshi

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Monthian Buntan" <m_buntan at yahoo.com>
Sent: Sunday, August 27, 2006 6:15 PM
Subject: Congratulations to 600,000,000 PWDs!


> Dear all:
>
> With all excitement and joyful feeling, I would like to inform to all that 
> the UN AdHoc Committee, at the end of it 8th session, adopted draft 
> International Convention on the Rights of PWDs at 8 PM (US easter time) at 
> UN Conference room 3 UN HQs building, New YOrk US.  Such historic moment 
> means that we are on the way to have, for the first time, human rights and 
> fundamental freedoms of PWDs recognized and guaranteed at the internal 
> level.  The adopted text will go to the drafting committee before being 
> adopted formally by the UN General Assembly by the end of this year.
>
> As head of the Thai delegation, who has participated actively from the 
> beginning until the conclusion of the 4-year long process, I would like to 
> congratulate all 600,000,000 PWDs, our friends and families around the 
> world.  This is just the beginning of gigantic step towards full and 
> effective participation of PWDs in the human society.  Let us hope that 
> implementation of this convention will the matter of reality, not just the 
> matter of having a legal document on the shelf.
>
> May Love, peace and happiness be with all,
>
> Thian (in the sky above the North Pole)
>
> PS: For the first time in the history of international law/UN document 
> that the final clause contains the mandatory statement on accessibility 
> "The text of this convention shall be made available in accessible 
> format."
>
>
> "I've given up on giving up."
> Monthian Buntan
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