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Ability About It’s An explanation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The text for this booklet was prepared by Victor Santiago Pineda, founder of the Victor Pineda Foundation and youngest government delegate to the Ad Hoc Committee that drafted the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. This project was initiated at UNICEF and has been led since its inception by Helen Schulte from UNICEF’s Child Protection Section, with support from María Cristina Gallegos, Voices of Youth Coordinator in UNICEF’s Adolescent Development and Participation Unit. The booklet was edited and produced by UNICEF’s Division of Communication. UNICEF gratefully acknowledges the support of Save the Children UK and Sweden, and the Special Olympics. We also express appreciation to UNICEF country offices in Armenia, China, Ethiopia, Nicaragua, Thailand and Uzbekistan for their important contributions. Special thanks go to the children and youth with disabilities who shared their insights at consultations organized by Save the Children and the Arab Human Rights Foundation in Sana’a, Yemen, in October 2007, and at a Youth Summit organized by the Special Olympics in Shanghai, China, parallel to the World Summer Games in October 2007. Many thanks also to those who participated in online consultations through UNICEF’s Voices of Youth, and to the young leaders with disabilities from the Victor Pineda Foundation’s A World Enabled initiative. UNICEF is especially indebted to the children who contributed their poems and artwork. We would also like to thank the members of the project’s technical advisory group for their thoughtful comments on successive drafts, in particular, Saudamini Siegrist (UNICEF Florence), Gerison Lansdown (independent consultant), Alexandra Yuster, Daniel Seymour and Nadine Perrault (UNICE