Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities

Highlights

• Commission on the Status of Women, 54th session (1-12 March 2010)
• Interactive panel discussion on “Cross-sectionalities of gender, disability, and development: Towards equality for women and girls with disabilities”
• Commission for Social Development, 48th session (3-12 February 2010)
• Resolution on "Mainstreaming disability in the development agenda" as orally amended and adopted by the Commission on 12 February 2010.

64th session of the General Assembly 

Reports of the Secretary-General:

• Status of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Optional Protocol (A/64/128)
• Realizing the Millennium Development Goals for Persons with Disabilities (A/64/180)
• Resolutions adopted by General Assembly:
• Realizing the Millennium Development Goals for Persons with Disabilities (A/RES/64/131)
• Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Optional Protocol thereto (Draft A/C3/64/L.24)

Convention in Brief

• Powerpoint presentation
• It’s About Ability - An explanation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNICEF)

Latest developments

• Ratifications of the Convention and its Optional Protocol
• Signatories of the Convention and its Optional Protocol
• Map of Signatures and Ratifications
• The Millennium Development Goals and Disability
• Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Third session, 22-26 February 2010 
• Commemorating the International Day of Persons with Disabilities - 3 December 2009
• Second session of the Conference of States Parties, 2-4 September 2009
• Enable Newsletter, February 2010
• Events

Handbook for Parliamentarians on the Convention  (PDF)

Fonte: Secretariat for the Convention on the rights of persons with disabilities

The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its Optional Protocol are serviced by a joint Secretariat, consisting of staff of both the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), based in New York, and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Geneva. This Enable website is provided by DESA.

LINK: http://www.un.org/disabilities/ 

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