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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

DOHA: The National Human Rights Committee (NHRC) welcomed the issuanceby His Highness the Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani of Law No. 22 of 2025 on persons with disabilities. The new law would ...

A public consultation on the EU strategy for the rights of persons with disabilities was held at Europe House in Valletta on Wednesday evening with MEP Peter Agius, shadow rapporteur for the opinions ...