Partnership, Implementation & Participation

Victim assistance and disability: making sense of three complementary Conventions

Loren Persi loren@icblcmc.org

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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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