11th session of the Conference of States Parties (COSP) to the UN CRPD- New York, USA

The 11th session of the Conference of States Parties (COSP) to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities will take place from Tuesday 12 to Thursday 14 June 2017 at UN Headquarters in New York. On Monday 11 June, a Civil Society CRPD Forum will be held to complement the Conference.

The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities was adopted by the General Assembly by its resolution 61/106 of 13 December 2006. It came into force on 3 May 2008 upon the 20th ratification. Article 40 of the Convention stipulates that “The States Parties shall meet regularly in a Conference of States Parties in order to consider any matter with regard to the implementation of the present Convention.” Since 2008, ten sessions of the Conference of States Parties have been held at United Nations Headquarters, New York.

The 11th session will expect to feature among other agenda items an election of 9 members of the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

Overarching Theme

“Leaving no one behind through the full implementation of the CRPD”

Sub-themes:

1. National fiscal space, public-private partnerships and international cooperation for strengthening the implementation of the CRPD
2. Women and girls with disabilities
3. Political participation and equal recognition before the law

Cross-cutting theme:

Promoting high-quality disability statistics and disaggregation of data by disability status for the full realization of the rights of persons with disabilities

Bureau

President: Bulgaria (Eastern European Group)

Vice-Presidents: Tunisia (African Group), Sri Lanka (Asia-Pacific Group), Ecuador (Latin American and Caribbean Group) and Germany (Western European and Others Group)

Documents (forthcoming)

• Provisional Agenda
• Background note for the Roundtable One: National fiscal space, public-private partnerships and international cooperation for strengthening the implementation of the CRPD;
• Background note for the Roundtable Two: Women and girls with disabilities;
• Background note for the Roundtable Three: Political participation and equal recognition before the law
• PaperSmart Portal (for document/statements; queries: papersmart4@un.org)

Election of the Members of the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

Civil Society Participation

• Registration for NGOs with ECOSOC status and NGOs Accredited to the Conference of State Parties OPEN (Deadline 28 May 2018)
  Please note that this year, we are using a new platform for managing registration of NGOs with ECOSOC status and Accredited NGOs to the Conference of States Parties to the CRPD (COSP) at United Nations Headquarters in New York. The platform is called Indico, and and it will be replacing the registration functionality of the current system, CSONet.
• Application for new NGO accreditation: OPEN (Deadline 19 April 2018)
• Online Application for Side Events: OPEN (Deadline 4 May 2018)
• CRPD Civil Society Forum, 11 June (details forthcoming)
• List of NGOs Accredited to the Conference of States Parties to the CRPD

Participation of National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs)

• Application for NHRI participation in COSP11 (Deadline 1 June 2018)
• NHRIs Accredited by the International Coordinating Committee of National Institutions for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights (Accreditation status as of 21 February 2018)
• OHCHR and NHRIs