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21 Blomgren, Lars, ’UN Standard Rules for Persons<strong>with</strong> <strong>Disabilities</strong>: Visions and tools in our workfor a society for all children’, delivered at ’Mythsand Facts concerning <strong>Children</strong> <strong>with</strong> <strong>Disabilities</strong>’conference, Malmö, 9-11 December 1999;proceedings published by Rädda Barnen,Stockholm, 2000.22 See to access <strong>the</strong> full report and fordetailed information on implementation <strong>of</strong> Rule 6on Education.23 Statement by Bengt Lindqvist, former UNSpecial Rapporteur on Disability (1994–2001),Ad Hoc Committee to Consider Proposals for aComprehensive and Integral Convention on <strong>the</strong><strong>Rights</strong> <strong>of</strong> Persons <strong>with</strong> <strong>Disabilities</strong>, New York,29 July–9 August 2002.24 Optional Protocol to <strong>the</strong> Convention on <strong>the</strong><strong>Rights</strong> <strong>of</strong> Persons <strong>with</strong> <strong>Disabilities</strong>, .25 Committee on <strong>the</strong> <strong>Rights</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Child, GeneralComment 9. <strong>Rights</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Children</strong> <strong>with</strong> <strong>Disabilities</strong>.43rd session, Geneva, 11-29 September 2006.26 Quoted in (no date given), accessed 1 June 2007.27 UN Millennium Development Goals, ; .28 .29 Disability Knowledge and Researchforum, quoted in ,accessed 8 December 2006.30 Wiman, R. (ed.), Disability Dimension inDevelopment Action: Manual on inclusiveplanning, National Research and DevelopmentCentre for Welfare and Health in Finland(STAKES) for United Nations, 1997 and 2000.Revised version available online 2003 at .Chapter 531 This definition is based on that used by <strong>the</strong>Equality Authority, Ireland.32 Committee on <strong>the</strong> <strong>Rights</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Child, GeneralComment 9, op. cit.33 Jones, Hazel, Disabled <strong>Children</strong>’s <strong>Rights</strong>: Apractical guide, Save <strong>the</strong> <strong>Children</strong>, Stockholm,2001.34 See <strong>UNICEF</strong>, <strong>Children</strong> and Disability in Transitionin CEE/CIS and Baltic States, op. cit., pp. 25–26;see also Sammon, Elayn, Defying Prejudice,Advancing Equality 2: <strong>Children</strong> and disability in<strong>the</strong> context <strong>of</strong> family breakdown in Central andSouth Eastern Europe and <strong>the</strong> Former SovietUnion, EveryChild, London, 2001.35 Committee on <strong>the</strong> <strong>Rights</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Child, SummaryRecord <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> 418th Meeting, CRC/C/SR.418,6 October 1997.36 Groce, Nora Ellen, An Overview <strong>of</strong> Young PeopleLiving <strong>with</strong> <strong>Disabilities</strong>: Their needs and <strong>the</strong>irrights, <strong>UNICEF</strong> Programme Division (WorkingPaper Series), New York, 1999.37 See, for example, Save <strong>the</strong> <strong>Children</strong> Alliance,Disabled <strong>Children</strong>’s <strong>Rights</strong>: A CD-Rom wi<strong>the</strong>xamples <strong>of</strong> good practice and violations fromaround <strong>the</strong> world, available <strong>with</strong> Jones, Hazel,Disabled <strong>Children</strong>’s <strong>Rights</strong>, op. cit.38 Lansdown, G., It Is Our World Too! op. cit.39 United Nations Secretary-General’s Study onViolence against <strong>Children</strong>, Summary Report<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Thematic Meeting on Violence against<strong>Children</strong> <strong>with</strong> <strong>Disabilities</strong>, 28 July 2005, UnitedNations, New York, p. 18, .40 See, for example, World Health Organization,Disability Prevention and Rehabilitation: A guidefor streng<strong>the</strong>ning <strong>the</strong> basic nursing curriculum,Document WHO/RHB/96.1, Division <strong>of</strong> HealthPromotion, Education and Communication,Geneva, 1996, .41 Mittler, H., Families Speak Out: Internationalperspectives on families’ experience <strong>of</strong> disability,Brookline Books, Boston, 1994.42 <strong>Children</strong>’s Law Centre, NGO Alternative Reporton <strong>the</strong> Implementation <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Convention on <strong>the</strong><strong>Rights</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Child in <strong>the</strong> UK, CRC 31st Session,16 September-4 October 2002, . See also examples from <strong>the</strong> CEE/CISregion in <strong>UNICEF</strong>, <strong>Children</strong> and Disability inTransition in CEE/CIS and Baltic States, op. cit.43 United Nations Educational, Scientific andCultural Organization, Open File on InclusiveEducation: Support materials for managers andadministrators, UNESCO, Paris, 2001.44 Carr, J., Down’s Syndrome: <strong>Children</strong> growing up,Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1995.45 Statistic quoted in <strong>Children</strong>’s <strong>Rights</strong> Alliance forEngland, Report to <strong>the</strong> Pre-Sessional WorkingGroup <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Committee on <strong>the</strong> <strong>Rights</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>Child, Preparing for Examination <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> UK’sSecond Report under <strong>the</strong> CRC, 2002, .46 Saleh, Lena and Sai Väyrynen, ’InclusiveEducation: Consensus, conflict and challenges’,UNESCO, Paris, 1999.47 Centre for Information and Statistics on Labourand Social Affairs, Vietnam Child DisabilitySurvey 1998, Ministry <strong>of</strong> Labour, Invalids andSocial Affairs (MOLISA), Vietnam and <strong>UNICEF</strong>,Hanoi, 2000.48 Saleh, Lena, ’<strong>Rights</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Children</strong> <strong>with</strong> SpecialNeeds: From rights to obligations andresponsibilities’, paper presented at <strong>the</strong>International Conference on <strong>Children</strong>’s <strong>Rights</strong> inEducation, 27–30 April 1998, Copenhagen.Innocenti Digest No. 13<strong>Promoting</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>Rights</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Children</strong> <strong>with</strong> <strong>Disabilities</strong>40