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PERMANENT COUNCIL OF THE OEA/Ser.G ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES CP/CAJP/GT/DDD-6/06 corr. 1 30 October 2006 COMMITTEE ON JURIDICAL AND POLITICAL AFFAIRS Original: Spanish

Working Group to Prepare a Program of Action for the Decade of the Americas for the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities (2006-2016)

SPECIAL MEETING TO RECEIVE INPUTS ON THE DRAFT PROGRAM OF ACTION FOR THE DECADE OF THE AMERICAS FOR THE RIGHTS AND DIGNITY OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES (2006-2016)

Date: December 12, 2006

PROPOSED LIST OF GUESTS

(Presented by the Chair)

I. OAS member states

II. Permanent observers to the Organization of American States

III. Appropriate organs, agencies, and entities of the OAS 1. Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) 2. Inter-American Commission of Women (CIM) 3. Trust for the Americas 4. Inter-American Children’s Institute (IIN)

IV. Other regional and international organizations 1. Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) 2. World Bank 3. Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) 2

4. International Monetary Fund – (IMF) 5. International Labour Organization (ILO) 6. United Nations (U.N.) 7. Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)

V. Civil society organizations, including organizations of persons with disabilities and their families 1. American Association on Mental Retardation (AAMR) 2. American University (Washington College of Law) 3. Antigua and Barbuda Association of Persons with Disabilities 4. Asociación Colombiana por Impedidos Motrices [Colombian Association for the Physically Handicapped] 5. Asociación de Sordos de Chile [Association of the Deaf of Chile] 6. Asociación Dominicana de Rehabilitación, Inc. [Dominican Rehabilitation Association, Inc.] 7. Asociación Down del Uruguay [Down’s Syndrome Association of Uruguay] 8. Asociación Nacional de Ciegos Salvadoreños (ANCIESAL) [National Association of Blind Salvadorians] 9. Asociación Nacional de Personas Impedidas (ANPI) [National Association of Handicapped Persons] 10. Bahamas Association for the Physically Disabled 11. Barbados Council for the Disabled 12. Center for International Rehabilitation / International Disability Educational Alliance Network (CIR / IDEAnet) 13. Centre des Enfants Handicapes - Programme Pazapa (Haiti) [Center for Handicapped Children—Pazapa Program] 14. Centro de Rehabilitación para Adultos Ciegos (CRAC) [Rehabilitation Center for Blind Adults] 15. Center for International Rehabilitation 16. Comisión Nacional Asesora para la Integración de Personas Discapacitadas (Argentina) [National Advisory Commission for the Integration of Persons with Disabilities] 17. Confederación Mexicana de Limitados Físicos y Representantes de Deficientes Mentales [Mexican Confederation for the Physically and Mentally Disabled] 18. Coordenadoria Nacional para Integração da Pessoa Portadora de deficiencia (CORDE) [National Coordinating Office for the Integration of Persons with Disabilities] 19. Disability Rights Promotion International (DRPI) 3

20. Disabled People’s International / Organización Mundial de Personas con Discapacidad – Latin American Region (DPI) 21. Disabled Women's Network of Trinidad and Tobago 22. Ente Nacional Coordinador de Instituciones de Discapacitados (ENCIDIS) [National Office for the Coordination of Institutions for Persons with Disabilities] 23. Families of the Disabled (Trinidad and Tobago) 24. Federación Argentina de Instituciones de Ciegos y Amblíopes (FAICA) [Argentine Federation of Institutions for the Blind and Sight-Impaired] 25. Federación Ecuatoriana Pro Atención a la Persona con Deficiencia Mental, Parálisis Cerebral, Autismo, y Síndrome de Down (FEPADEM) [Ecuadorian Federation for Assistance to Persons with Mental Disabilities, Cerebral Palsy, Autism, and Down’s Syndrome] 26. Latin American Federation of Autism (FELAC) 27. Federación Nacional de Ciegos del Ecuador [National Federation of the Blind of Ecuador] 28. Federación Nacional de Discapacitados Dominicanos [National Federation of Dominicans with Disabilities] 29. Federación Nacional de Ciegos de Bolivia (FENACIEBO) [National Federation of the Blind of Bolivia] 30. Federación Nacional de Ciegos del Ecuador – Cuenca [National Federation of the Blind of Ecuador] 31. Federación Nacional de Ciegos del Ecuador – Riobamba [National Federation of the Blind of Ecuador] 32. Federación Nacional de Ecuatorianos con Discapacidad Física (FENEDIF) [National Federation of Ecuadorians with Physical Disabilities] 33. Federación Nacional de Organismos no Gubernamentales para la Discapacidad (FENODIS) [National Federation of Nongovernmental Organizations for Persons with Disabilities] 34. Federación Nacional de Ciegos del Ecuador (FENASEC) [National Federation of the Deaf of Ecuador] 35. Fondo Nacional de la Discapacidad (Chile) [National Fund for Persons with Disabilities] 36. Fundación Asistencia Materno-Infantil de Ayuda a Niños Carenciados y Discapacitados (FUNDAMIND) [Foundation for the Maternal Care of Needy and Disabled Children] 37. Fundación de Ayuda al Niño Limitado (COANIL) [Foundation to Assist Handicapped Children] 38. Fundación Nacional de Sordos de Colombia [National Association of the Deaf of Colombia] 39. Fundación Paso a Paso (Venezuela) [Step by Step Foundation] 4

40. Grenada National Council for the Disabled 41. Handicap International 42. Health Wrights 43. Inclusion International 44. Instituto Boliviano de la Ceguera [Bolivian Institute for the Blind] 45. Instituto de Ayuda al Niño Irregular (IDANI) [Institution to Assist Handicapped Children] 46. Instituto Para Niños Ciegos y Sordos de Cali (Colombia) [Institute for Blind and Deaf Children of Cali] 47. Instituto Para Niños Ciegos y Sordos del Valle del Cauca (Colombia) [Institute for Blind and Deaf Children of the Cauca Valley] 48. Inter-American Institute on Disability (IID) 49. International Federation of Hard of Hearing People 50. International Labour Organization- Skills and Employability Department 51. International Organization for the Scientific Study of Intellectual Disabilities 52. La Fundación Dominicana de Ciegos [Dominican Foundation for the Blind] 53. Landmine Survivors Network 54. Mental Disability Rights International 55. Mind Freedom Support Coalition International 56. National Center on Physical Activity and Disability (United States) 57. National Down Syndrome Society (United States) 58. Inter-American Program on Children, Family, and Disability (PANDA) 59. The Ibero-American Network of Organizations of Persons with Disabilities and Their Families (RIADIS) 60. Red Metropolitana de la Discapacidad Visual (Chile) [Metropolitan Network for the Sight-Impaired] 61. Rede de Informações sobre Deficiencia [Information Network on Disability] 62. Rehabilitation International 63. Seña y Verbo Teatro de Sordos (México) [Sign and Speech Theater of the Deaf] 64. Sociedad Peruana de Síndrome Down [Peruvian Down’s Syndrome Society] 65. Sociedad y Discapacidad (Peru) [Society and Disability] 66. Sociedade Brasileira de Atividade Motora Adaptada [Brazilian Society for Adaptive Motor Activity] 67. Sordos Colombianos [The Deaf of Colombia] 68. Special Olympics 5

69. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) 70. União Brasileira de Cegos (UBC) [Brazilian Union of the Blind] 71. Unión Colombiana de Discapacitados Visuales (UCLV) [Colombian Union of the Sight- Impaired] 72. Unión Latinoamericana de Ciegos (ULAC) [Latin American Union of the Blind] 73. Vida Independiente México [Independent Living Mexico] 74. World Blind Union 75. World Federation of the Deaf 76. World Federation of the Deafblind 77. World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry

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