United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD)

United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD)

Read the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. There is also an easy read version and a child-friendly version.

United Nations pages on the Convention

• Main UN index page for the Convention
• Questions and answers on the Convention
• The Convention in brief
• Handbook for parliamentarians on the Convention
• Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights disability page including
  • study on implementation and monitoring (PDF) and
  • Monitoring the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Guidance for Human Rights Monitors (PDF) and Word
• WHO toolkit Mental health and social care facilities
• List of countries ratifying Convention
• Declarations and reservations
• Special session on accessibility

Other important United Nations documents

• World Programme of Action Concerning Disabled Persons
• Biwako Millennium Framework and Biwako plus Five (Further efforts towards an inclusive, barrier free and rights based society for persons with disabilities in Asia and the Pacific ): United Nations Economic and Social Council for Aisa and the Pacific

Other resources

• Ratify Now campaign
• Human rights Yes manual
• Landmine survivors network ratification handbook
• Harvard Project on Disability
• Global Disability Rights Library