Australia Leads Support for People With Disabilities in Asia Pacific
October 6, 2008
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Loading ...Australia released the draft strategy for consultation at the International Conference on Disability, Disadvantage and Development in the Pacific and Asia held 29 September – 1 October as part of its strategy to become the regional leader in promoting disability rights. Australia has recently ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and, in addition to a disability strategy for its aid program, is preparing a national disability policy to be released in 2009. With a longstanding program promoting Inclusive Tourism Australia could take global leadership by linking the economic engine of tourism to its aid and national disability policies.
The strategy paper can be downloaded here:
http://www.ausaid.gov.au/keyaid/pdf/draft_disability_strategy_09to14.pdf
Press release:
http://www.ausaid.gov.au/media/release.cfm?BC=Latest&ID=1213_3874_2510_2635_942
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