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21 Blomgren, Lars, ’UN Standard Rules for Personswith Disabilities: Visions and tools in our workfor a society for all children’, delivered at ’Mythsand Facts concerning Children with Disabilities’conference, Malmö, 9-11 December 1999;proceedings published by Rädda Barnen,Stockholm, 2000.22 See to access the full report and fordetailed information on implementation of 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 theRights of Persons with Disabilities, New York,29 July–9 August 2002.24 Optional Protocol to the Convention on theRights of Persons with Disabilities, .25 Committee on the Rights of the Child, GeneralComment 9. Rights of Children with Disabilities.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 theEquality Authority, Ireland.32 Committee on the Rights of the Child, GeneralComment 9, op. cit.33 Jones, Hazel, Disabled Children’s Rights: Apractical guide, Save the Children, Stockholm,2001.34 See UNICEF, Children and Disability in Transitionin CEE/CIS and Baltic States, op. cit., pp. 25–26;see also Sammon, Elayn, Defying Prejudice,Advancing Equality 2: Children and disability inthe context of family breakdown in Central andSouth Eastern Europe and the Former SovietUnion, EveryChild, London, 2001.35 Committee on the Rights of the Child, SummaryRecord of the 418th Meeting, CRC/C/SR.418,6 October 1997.36 Groce, Nora Ellen, An Overview of Young PeopleLiving with Disabilities: Their needs and theirrights, UNICEF Programme Division (WorkingPaper Series), New York, 1999.37 See, for example, Save the Children Alliance,Disabled Children’s Rights: A CD-Rom withexamples of good practice and violations fromaround the world, available with Jones, Hazel,Disabled Children’s Rights, op. cit.38 Lansdown, G., It Is Our World Too! op. cit.39 United Nations Secretary-General’s Study onViolence against Children, Summary Reportof the Thematic Meeting on Violence againstChildren with Disabilities, 28 July 2005, UnitedNations, New York, p. 18, .40 See, for example, World Health Organization,Disability Prevention and Rehabilitation: A guidefor strengthening the basic nursing curriculum,Document WHO/RHB/96.1, Division of HealthPromotion, Education and Communication,Geneva, 1996, .41 Mittler, H., Families Speak Out: Internationalperspectives on families’ experience of disability,Brookline Books, Boston, 1994.42 Children’s Law Centre, NGO Alternative Reporton the Implementation of the Convention on theRights of the Child in the UK, CRC 31st Session,16 September-4 October 2002, . See also examples from the CEE/CISregion in UNICEF, Children 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: Children growing up,Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1995.45 Statistic quoted in Children’s Rights Alliance forEngland, Report to the Pre-Sessional WorkingGroup of the Committee on the Rights of theChild, Preparing for Examination of the UK’sSecond Report under the 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 of Labour, Invalids andSocial Affairs (MOLISA), Vietnam and UNICEF,Hanoi, 2000.48 Saleh, Lena, ’Rights of Children with SpecialNeeds: From rights to obligations andresponsibilities’, paper presented at theInternational Conference on Children’s Rights inEducation, 27–30 April 1998, Copenhagen.Innocenti Digest No. 13Promoting the Rights of Children with Disabilities40