Pacific Rim International Forum Information

For more information on the International Forum, past proceedings and information on our 2011 Forum, you may visit www.pacrim.hawaii.edu or email cccrocke@hawaii.edu with any questions.

Millennium Development Goals (MDG) Information

For more information on the Millennium Development Goals, the United Nations meetings on MDG’s in June and September and other information please visit http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/bkgd.shtml.

Pacific Rim International Forum on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

This year's Pacific Rim International Forum on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities hosted by the Center on Disability Studies at the University of Hawaii and held in Honolulu on April 10-11, 2010 resulted in a participant driven Declaration entitled, "THE PACIFIC RIM DECLARATION FOR DISABILITY-INCLUSIVE MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS."

Attached is both a PDF and Word 2003 version of the document. Please feel free to use it as an educational tool, as a support document to advocate to your governments or as a template to create your own regional declarations or statements.

You may also download or view the Declaration at We have posted the Declaration on the following UN websites:
http://www.un.org/disabilities/index.asp
http://www.un.org/disabilities/default.asp?id=1470