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Highlights
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:
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)
International Day of Persons with Disabilities - 3 December 2009
Theme for 2009: “Making the MDGs Inclusive: Empowerment of persons with disabilities and their communities around the world”. The theme has been selected to draw attention to and promote a better understanding of disability issues and mobilize action for the empowerment of persons with disabilities.
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Appointment of Mr. Shuaib Chalklen of South Africa as new Special Rapporteur on Disability
Convention in Brief
The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its Optional Protocol came into force on May 3, 2008. Convention aims to ensure that persons with disabilities enjoy all human rights on an equal basis with others.
Latest developments
- Ratifications of the Convention and its Optional Protocol
- Signatories of the Convention and its Optional Protocol
- Map of Signatures and Ratifications
- 143 signatories to the Convention
- 87 signatories to the Optional Protocol
- 74 ratifications of the Convention
- 47 ratifications of the Optional Protocol
- Bolivia ratified the Convention on 16-11-2009
- Bolivia acceded to the Optional Protocol on 16-11-2009
- United Republic of Tanzania acceded to the Optional Protocol on 10-11-2009
- United Republic of Tanzania ratified the Convention on 10-11-2009
The Millennium Development Goals and Disability
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, November 2009
NGOs working on disability issues
Events
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Handbook for Parliamentarians on the Convention (PDF) |
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.