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NOTESEditorial1 United Nations General Assembly, A World Fitfor Children, A/RES/S-27/2 (paragraphs 7(3) and21), United Nations, New York, 11 October 2002.Chapter 12 United Nations Educational, Scientific andCultural Organization, World Conference onSpecial Needs Education: Access and quality,Salamanca, Spain, UNESCO, Paris, 1994. See for follow-upreports.Chapter 23 United Nations, Disability Fact Sheet,International Convention on the Rights ofPersons with Disabilities, United Nations, NewYork, 2006.4 UNICEF, Children and Disability in Transition inCEE/CIS and Baltic States, Innocenti Insight,UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, Florence,2005.5 UNICEF, ’UNICEF Gambia 2000 Annual Report’(internal document), UNICEF, Banjul, 2000.6 United Nations Statistics Division, , accessed 3 March 2007; alsoChapter 37 Cited by Persson, Ulrika, ’Have Children withDisabilities an Obvious Place in Society?’ at’Myths and Facts concerning Children withDisabilities’ conference, Malmö, 9-11 December1999; proceedings published by Rädda Barnen,Stockholm, 2000.8 Elwan, A., Poverty and Disability: A survey of theliterature, Washington, DC: World Bank, 1999.9 Inclusion International, Hear Our Voices: A globalreport: People with an intellectual disabilityand their families speak out on poverty andexclusion, Inclusion International, London, 2006,.10 Groce, N., HIV/AIDS and Disability: Capturinghidden voices, World Bank and Yale UniversityPress, New Haven, 2004.11 ’UNICEF Says Small Arms and Light WeaponsTake Young Victims: Children’, Press release,UNICEF, 2001.12 European Disability Forum, DevelopmentCooperation and Disability, EDF Policy Paper,2002, Doc. EDF 02/16 EN, .13 Wolfensohn, J. D., ’Poor, Disabled and Shut Out’,Washington Post, 3 December 2002, p. A25.14 World Bank, Social Analysis and Disability:A guidance note – incorporating disabilityinclusivedevelopment into bank-supportedprojects, Social Analysis Sectoral GuidanceNote Series, Social Development Department,World Bank, Washington, D.C., 2007. See alsoGuernsey, K., M. Nicoli, and A. Ninio, ’MakingInclusion Operational: Legal and institutionalresources for World Bank staff on the inclusionof disability issues in investment projects’, Lawand Development Working Paper Series No. 1,October 2006.15 Mainstreaming Disability in DevelopmentCooperation, an IDDC project to break thecycle of poverty and disability in developmentcooperation, financed by the EuropeanCommission, .Chapter 416 For a comprehensive account of human rightsinitiatives see Herr, S., L. Gostin, and H. Koh(eds), The Human Rights of Persons withIntellectual Disabilities: Different but equal,Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2003. Furtherbackground on disability and human rights iscontained in, for example, Lansdown, G., It IsOur World Too! Disability Awareness in Action,London, 2001; Quinn, Gerard, et al., HumanRights and Disability: The current use andfuture potential of United Nations human rightsinstruments in the context of disability, UnitedNations, Geneva, 2002, esp. ch. 8: Kilkelly,Ursula, ’Disability and Children: The Conventionon the Rights of the Child (CRC)’.17 Quinn, Gerard, et al., Human Rights andDisability, op. cit., p. 1.18 UN Human Rights Council, Implementation ofGeneral Assembly Resolution 60/251 of15 March 2006 Entitled “Human RightsCouncil”, The Right to Education of Persons withDisabilities, Report of the Special Rapporteur onthe right to education, Vernor Muñoz, DocumentSA/HRC/4/29, United Nations, New York, 19February 2007, .19 Available from United Nations, Division for SocialPolicy and Development, .20 Committee on the Rights of the Child, Sessional/Annual Report of Committee, Report on the16th Session (Geneva, 22 September-10 October 1997), CRC/C/69, para. 331.39 Promoting the Rights of Children with Disabilities Innocenti Digest No. 13