Number 1, 2006

Article 1.
Ambassador Don MacKay says that the Comprehensive and Integral
International Convention to Promote and Protect the Rights and
Dignity of Persons with Disabilities can be concluded at the
next meeting of the Ad Hoc Committee at the United Nations.

Article 2.
Amadou and Mariam, ’The blind couple from Mali’, have brought
African music to the European charts. Now they are bringing
Europe to Africa.

Article 3.
Shuaib Chalklen lists five challenges and seven opportunities
for the Secretariat of the African Decade of Persons with
Disabilities.

Article 4.
Gouwah Samuels tells us about the establishment of National
Decade Steering Committees that are implementing programs of
the African Decade of Persons with Disabilities.

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