The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its Optional Protocol (A/RES/61/106) was adopted on 13 December 2006 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, and was opened for ...

Turkey has yet to sign the additional protocols, which allow individuals and groups to apply to the UN Disability Rights Committee if all domestic legal possibilities have been exhausted. What is ...

In July 2009, we rated President Barack Obama's campaign pledge to sign the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities as a Promise Kept. Susan Rice, Obama's ambassador to the United ...

MINNEAPOLIS & COPENHAGEN, Denmark--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Siteimprove, the leading enterprise platform that transforms content into revenue, announces its participation in the “Building Capacity to ...

Following Uzbekistan’s ratification of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) in 2021, the country swiftly embarked on devising a plan for its implementation. This ...

Human Rights Watch [1] welcomes the opportunity to provide input to the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (the “Committee”) in advance of its upcoming review of Canada. This ...

Kenya ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) this year. The Convention is a landmark instrument designed to mark a shift in attitudes and approaches to persons ...

We write in advance of the 31st session of the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (“the Committee”) and its review of Ghana.[1] This submission highlights areas of concern that Human ...