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Acknowledgements

Foreword

Chapter 1: Overview

Chapter 2: In detail

Chapter 3: Monitoring

Chapter 4: Becoming a party

Chapter 5: National legislation

Chapter 6: Implementing the Convention

Chapter 7: Creating national institutions

References

Annex I: Convention

Annex II: Optional Protocol

• Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Disability
  
• Transforming our world: The 2030 Agenda for Global Action
  

Final draft of the outcome document for the UN Summit for sustainable development

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Disability

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Monitoring and evaluation of disability-inclusive development

Women and girls with disabilities

Disasters and emergency situations

Mental health and development

Refugees and migrants with disabilities

Accessible tourism for all

Indigenous persons with disabilities

Development and human rights

Disability and sports

Financing for disability-inclusive development

All issues

History of disability and the United Nations

The UN and Disabled Persons -The First Fifty Years

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Handbook for Parliamentarians on the CRPD

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