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September 2006
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Archive (1 September 2006)

Today's Features

Lebanon Recovery Moving Quickly, But Blockade And Unexploded Ordinance Impedes Process
Secretary-General Calls on Syria to Play a Constructive Role in the Peace Process

Today's News

FAO Warns that Widespread Conflict Will Worsen Situation in Somalia
Beslan in Southern Russia Marks Second Anniversary Killing of Children
UN Official Says Stockholm Conference is a Moral Boost for Lebanon
UK-based Landmine Action Calls for the Ban of Cluster Bombs
Syrian President Pledges to Implement Security Council Resolution 1701

Caribbean News

Decolonization Committee elects Saint Lucia as its Chairman
OAS says elections in Guyana have been free, credible and fair
Trinidad and Tobago's "Put a Woman" project is one of 125 approved by the UN Democracy Fund
Trinidad and Tobago's representative to the meeting on Disabilities says now there is a new Convention the real work begins to get everyone's support.
And a Haitian Human Rights Organization says an international conference is needed to address the problems of migration and the need for labour laws, between Haiti and the Dominica

Perspective

ADOPTED: THE DISABILITY CONVENTION: After five years of negotiations the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons wtih Disabilities was adopted on 25 August 2006. All 40 Articles were adopted by consensus, but a reference in the preamble to the rights of persons with disabilities 'under foreign occupation' was disputed and put to a vote. This program looks at the process leading to adoption of the convention, what the world's 650 million persons with disabilities should expect from it, and the main themes covered in the treaty.