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Asia Pacific Disabled Persons Organization-United AP DPO-United

 At the Asia Pacific Disabled Peoples' Organizations(DPOs)-United held along with a Bangkok meeting toward the new decade of persons with disabilities in Asia and the Pacific on June , 2010, the issue was discussed during sub-regional meetings including South Asia, South- east Asia, East Asia and North-east Asia regions.  At the Delhi Workshop to Ratify and Implement the CRPD on August 18-22, 2011, participants shared the necessity to create the AP-DPO UNITED and discussed the way of creation.  At the Preparatory Meeting to establish AP DPO-UNITED, co-hosted by the Korea Federation of Organizations of the Disabled (KOFOD) and the Korean Solidarity for Preparation of 3rd Asia-Pa cific Decade of Disabled Persons, held in Korea on September 5-7, 2011, participants agreed f or secretariat of AP DPO United at the office of AP DPI and to create the preparatory committe e composed of ten members considering region and disability type.  Preparatory Committee Members include five PWDs - Kim Hyo-jin (Korea) - Rajiv Rajan (India) - Josephine De Vera (Philippines) - Asipa Musaeva (Kyrgyzstan) - Villaney Remengesau (Palau) - Saowalak Thongkuay (Thailand) - Maulani A Rotinsulu (Indonesia) - Samantha French (Australia) - Javed Abidi (India) Members had the first round meeting of the preparatory committee in Bangkok on December 2011 during the ESCAP stakeholder meeting and second meeting on March 2012 at the ESCAP high-level meeting.

 Regional unified organization of Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) in Asia and the Pacific for effective implementation of the 3rd Asian an d the Pacific Decade of Disabled Persons.  Through AP DPO-United mechanism, PWDs want to participate in the 3rd Decade as the main entity in a systematic way.  Based on disability perspective, PWDs want to participate in and rev iew each country's implementation status and to strengthen informa tion sharing and support among them through international cooperat ions and meetings.

 To advocate the sovereignty and autonomy of Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) and  To realize the full participation and equality of Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) as a human being who has dignity and value through joint efforts in Asia and the Pacific region.

 To create an inclusive society for all people regardless of disabilities for f ull participation and equality with others of persons with disabilities.  To eradicate political, economical, educational, social and cultural prejud ice and discrimination against persons with disabilities.  To against human rights violation and on sovereignty movement of perso ns with disabilities.  To implement the UN CRPD in Asia and the Pacific region.  To implement and evaluate of the Asian and Pacific Decades of Persons with Disabilities for the development of the international society.  To support mutual cooperation, coordination and exchange among organ izations of persons with disabilities in Asia and the Pacific.  To research and study for implementing projects and activities mentione d in Article 4.  To serve as international cooperation project to build capacity and to sup port social participation of persons with disabilities.  To be resources development for activities and projects in Asia and the P acific region.

 A self-help organization of persons with disabilities only can be a full membe r of the United and a disability-related organization  can be joined in as an associate member.  Full-membership 1. Self-help organization of persons with disabilities representing disability type, disability cause and gender. 2. Organization who has a disabled president and disabled members, and half of members in decision making body are persons with disabilities. 3. National or regional-based organizations in each country. Associate Membership 1. Disability-related organization 2. Organization who doesn’t meet full requirements of full-membership. 3. Expert groups  Organizations in each country shall be joined in the United as the unified nati onal organization or shall be joined in individually. If multiple organizations in one country would join in the United, each organization shall has its represe ntative, but for a national representative meeting of the United, multiple orga nizations shall select or make one organization through cooperation.

 GENERAL ASSEMBLY – Full and associate members  REGIONAL ASSEMBLY  BOARD OF DIRECTORS 1. One president 2. One vice-president 3. Five sub-regional representatives 4. Within 10 general directors 5. Two auditors  SUB-REGIONAL ORGANIZATIONS – Volunteer organizations  SECRETARIAT – AP DPI

 Disability inclusive activities  Awareness, Advocacy, and Empowerment Programs for PWDs  Representation and Voice of PWDs in DPO  Equal participation of WWDs in DPO

 Training and Employment  Capacity Building for DPO and PWDs  Awareness raising  Education  HealthAccessibility  Parents and families support  Collaboration with Community and Stakeholders  Sport and recreational activities  Violence and abuse against WWDs  Early detection and intervention  Leadership and empowerment of WWDs

 UNIFIED REGIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR PWDs IN ASIA PACIFIC REGION  REPRESENTATION and VOICE OF PWDs in AP REGION  EQUAL PARTICIPATION of WWDs in AP REGION  INCLUSIVE SOCIETY FOR PWDs in AP REGION  MAKE THE RIGHT REAL FOR PWDs in AP REGION

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