UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon appoints Mr. Stevie Wonder, an internationally celebrated musician, as the new UN Messenger of Peace at UN Headquarters.
Highlights
Commission for Social Development, 48th session (3-12 February 2010)
Report of the Secretary-General on mainstreaming disability in the development agenda (E/CN.5/2010/6)
Side event: Interactive Dialogue on Mainstreaming Disability in the Development Agenda: Disability-Inclusive Development Cooperation
Accessible route to Conference Room 4 (TNLB)
Appointment of Mr. Shuaib Chalklen of South Africa as new Special Rapporteur on Disability
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)
Draft resolutions adopted by General Assembly:
Inclusion of persons with disabilities in realizing the Millennium Development Goals (A/C.3/64/L.5)
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Optional Protocol thereto (A/C.3/64/L.24)
Convention in Brief
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
- 144 signatories to the Convention
- 88 signatories to the Optional Protocol
- 79 ratifications of the Convention
- 50 ratifications of the Optional Protocol
- Ukraine ratified the Convention on 4-2-2010
- Ukraine ratified the Optional Protocol on 4-2-2010
- Nicaragua ratified the Optional Protocol on 2-2-2010
- Zambia ratified the Convention on 1-2-2010
The Millennium Development Goals and Disability
Commemorating the International Day of Persons with Disabilities - 3 December 2009
Second session of the Conference of States Parties, 2-4 September 2009
Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, second session, 19-23 October 2009
Enable Newsletter, January 2010
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Handbook for Parliamentarians on the Convention (PDF) |
Secretariat for the Convention on the rights of persons with disabilities
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