Abstract
The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) has been at the forefront of promoting a rights-based approach to disability issues since 1993 through two consecutive disability-specific regional decade initiatives (ESCAP 2007a). The current Asian and Pacific Decade of Disabled Persons, 2003-2012 promotes the creation of an inclusive, barrier-free and rights-based society with its policy guideline, the Biwako Millennium Framework for Action: towards an Inclusive, Barrier-free and Rights-based Society for Persons with Disabilities in Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP 2003), and its supplement, the Biwako Plus Five: Further Efforts towards an Inclusive, Barrier-free and Rights-based Society for Persons with Disabilities in Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP 2007b).
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