Partnership, Implementation & Participation
Victim assistance and disability: making sense of three complementary Conventions
Loren Persi [email protected]
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Age and gender appropriate
Victim assistance
Medical care
Physical rehabilitation
Psychological and psychosocial
support Social inclusion
Economic inclusion
Data collection Laws and policies
Accessibility Participation
Awareness
Person
• The first such treaty to recognizing the needs of victims
• Entered into force in 1999• 160 States Parties• 26 States Parties with significant numbers of
survivors• Cartagena Action Plan (CAP) 2010-2014
Mine Ban Treaty (MBT)
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)
• Promotes, protect and ensures the full and equal enjoyment of all human rights by all persons with disabilities
• Entered into force 2008• 154 signatories• 126 ratifications and accessions• 90 signatories to the Optional Protocol and 76
ratifications and accessions of the Protocol
• Victim assistance is a legal obligation • Entered in to force in 2010 • 111 countries have joined the Convention; 77
are States Parties • Vientiane Action Plan (VAP)
Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM)
Inter-ministerial & Inter-sectoral coordination /focal point
Availability of services and access to services Use of standards/good practicesMeaningful inclusion and participation of
survivors Awareness about rights of persons with
disabilities In accordance with international humanitarian
and human rights lawMonitoring and reportingPlanning and resources
MBT & CCMAction Plans (CAP & VAP)
CRPD structures
National coordinatio
n mechanism
Focal point in
government
Enforce Minimum standards
Obligation to report
International
cooperation
Victim assistance and the CRPD
Right to personal mobility CRPD Article 20
Ensure personal mobility with the greatest possible independence for persons with disabilities …
facilitating access to quality mobility aids, devices, assistive technologies
Right to work and employment CRPD Article 27
The right to work, on an equal basis with others …access to vocational guidance programs, placement services and training
Right to participation in cultural life CRPD Article 30
The right of persons with disabilities to take part on an equal basis with others in cultural life recreation, leisure and sport
“Victim assistance does not require the development of new fields.... .”
Mine Ban Treaty Nairobi Review Conference, 2004.
VA in inclusive development
Two ban treaties and the CRPD:
Victim assistance implementation
CCM
CRPDMBT
Thank you
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