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31 This definition is based on that used by the 
Equality Authority, Ireland.
32 
Committee on the Rights of the Child, General 
Comment 9, op. cit. 
33 
Jones, Hazel, 
Disabled Children’s Rights: A 
practical guide
, Save the Children, Stockholm, 
2001.
34 
See UNICEF, 
Children and Disability in Transition 
in CEE/CIS and Baltic States
, op. cit., pp. 25–26; 
see also Sammon, Elayn, 
Defying Prejudice, 
Advancing Equality 2: Children and disability in 
the context of family breakdown in Central and 
South Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet 
Union
, EveryChild, London, 2001.
35 
Committee on the Rights of the Child, Summary 
Record of the 418th Meeting, CRC/C/SR.418, 
6 October 1997.
36 
Groce, Nora Ellen, 
An Overview of Young People 
Living with Disabilities: Their needs and their 
rights
, UNICEF Programme Division (Working 
Paper Series), New York, 1999.
37 
See, for example, Save the Children Alliance, 
Disabled Children’s Rights: A CD-Rom with 
examples of good practice and violations from 
around the world
, available with Jones, Hazel, 
Disabled Children’s Rights
, op. cit.
38 
Lansdown, G., 
It Is Our World Too!
op. cit.
39 
United Nations Secretary-General’s Study on 
Violence against Children, Summary Report 
of the Thematic Meeting on Violence against 
Children with Disabilities, 28 July 2005, United 
Nations, New York, p. 18, org/r180>.
40 
See, for example, World Health Organization, 
Disability Prevention and Rehabilitation: A guide 
for strengthening the basic nursing curriculum
, 
Document WHO/RHB/96.1, Division of Health 
Promotion, Education and Communication, 
Geneva, 1996, hq/1996/WHO_RHB_96.1.pdf>.
41 
Mittler, H., 
Families Speak Out: International 
perspectives on families’ experience of disability
, 
Brookline Books, Boston, 1994.
42 
Children’s Law Centre, NGO Alternative Report 
on the Implementation of the Convention on the 
Rights of the Child in the UK, CRC 31st Session, 
16 September-4 October 2002, docs/resources/treaties/crc.31/UK_ngo_report.
doc>. See also examples from the CEE/CIS 
region in UNICEF, 
Children and Disability in 
Transition in CEE/CIS and Baltic States
, op. cit.
43 
United Nations Educational, Scientific and 
Cultural Organization, 
Open File on Inclusive 
Education: Support materials for managers and 
administrators
, UNESCO, Paris, 2001.
44 
Carr, J., 
Down’s Syndrome: Children growing up
, 
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1995.
45 
Statistic quoted in Children’s Rights Alliance for 
England, Report to the Pre-Sessional Working 
Group of the Committee on the Rights of the 
Child, Preparing for Examination of the UK’s 
Second Report under the CRC, 2002, crin.org/docs/resources/treaties/crc.31/CRC_
England_2002.pdf>.
46 
Saleh, Lena and Sai Väyrynen, ’Inclusive 
Education: Consensus, conflict and challenges’, 
UNESCO, Paris, 1999.
47 
Centre for Information and Statistics on Labour 
and Social Affairs, Vietnam Child Disability 
Survey 1998, Ministry of Labour, Invalids and 
Social Affairs (MOLISA), Vietnam and UNICEF, 
Hanoi, 2000.
48 
Saleh, Lena, ’Rights of Children with Special 
Needs: From rights to obligations and 
responsibilities’, paper presented at the 
International Conference on Children’s Rights in 
Education, 27–30 April 1998, Copenhagen.

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Mittler, Peter, personal communication, February 
2007. See also Gunnar Dybwad in Bersani, H.,