MDAC CRPD COSP UN HQ NYC. Clear?

I've been very bad at blogging. There really is no excuse, apart from the fact that we're very busy at MDAC. We are constantly very busy, of course, and I am sure that other organisations are also very busy but they find time to blog. So, I promise to do better in the future! The next instillation of this blog will be next week because MDAC will be at UN CRPD COSP at UN HQ in NYC. Is that clear? If you like words rather than acronyms, read on. COSP stands for 'Conference of States Parties'. What this means is that the governments who ratify a treaty get together in a big meeting. This COSP is the for those governments which have ratified the CRPD, which is the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. You probably know what this is, but if you don't take a look at www.un.org/disabilities to find out. Nerds will see that Article 40 is about COSP. A flock of MDAC colleagues and I will be taking part at the meeting in at United Nations headquarters in New York City next Wednesday 1 Sept to Friday 3 Sept. I'll be blogging from there. The purpose of the blog is to enable the meeting to be accessible to civil society around the world. We recognise that there are many NGOs who do not have the resources to get to New York and participate in the meeting. As with previous blogs I will try to give an account of what happens through MDAC's perspective, rather than merely a dry description. Please sign up so you can leave comments. It would be lovely to have some interaction :-)