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
Vancouver Paralympic Games 2010
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” (See flyer)
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
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
- 83 ratifications of the Convention
- 52 ratifications of the Optional Protocol
- Bosnia and Herzegovina ratified the Convention on 12-3-2010
- Bosnia and Herzegovina ratified the Optional Protocol on 12-3-2010
- Canada ratified the Convention on 11-3-2010
- Latvia ratified the Convention on 1-3-2010
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
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Handbook for Parliamentarians on the Convention (PDF) |
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