Promoting the rights of Children with disabilities innocenti digest no

Contents
executive summary 
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editorial 
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1 introduCtion
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Promoting inclusion
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Scope of this Digest
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Box 1.1: Disability terminology
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2 how many Children 
 
with disabilities?
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Box 2.1: Changing levels of disability in 
CEE/CIS and the Baltic States
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3 disability and inClusion
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The ’social model’ of disability
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Disability and poverty
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4 international standards 
 
and meChanisms
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Convention on the Rights of the Child
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Box 4.1: Human rights instruments and 
high-level decisions reinforcing the rights 
of persons with disabilities
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Other international human rights 
instruments and decisions
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UN Standard Rules on the Equalization of 
Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities
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Box 4.2: Work of the UN Special Rapporteur 
on Disability
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Convention on the Rights of Persons 
with Disabilities
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Article 7: Children with disabilities 
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Article 24: Education
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Article 32: International cooperation 
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Monitoring implementation of the Convention 
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Implementation at national level: Next steps 
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Millennium Development Goals
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Box 4.3: Millennium Development Goals
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