Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

61 106. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

(i) To nurture receptiveness to the rights of persons with disabilities

62 170. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Optional Protocol thereto

(a) To raise awareness throughout society, including at the family level, regarding persons with disabilities, and to foster respect for the rights and dignity of persons with disabilities

(i) Recognizing further the diversity of persons with disabilities,

(c) To promote awareness of the capabilities and contributions of persons with disabilities.

(h) Promote the employment of persons with disabilities in the private sector through appropriate policies and measures, which may include affirmative action programmes, incentives and other measures

1. There shall be established a Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (hereafter referred to as the Committee ), which shall carry out the functions hereinafter provided.

(b) Accepting and facilitating the use of sign languages, Braille, augmentative and alternative communication, and all other accessible means, modes and formats of communication of their choice by persons with disabilities in official interactions

Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

1. Expresses its appreciation to the Ad Hoc Committee for having concluded the elaboration of the draft Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the draft Optional Protocol to the Convention

(b) Persons with disabilities can access an inclusive, quality and free primary education and secondary education on an equal basis with others in the communities in which they live

(e) To ensure equal access by persons with disabilities to retirement benefits and programmes.

2. In realizing this right, States Parties shall ensure that

(d) To ensure that children with disabilities have equal access with other children to participation in play, recreation and leisure and sporting activities, including those activities in the school system

Promoting the use of information and communications technology by persons with disabilities and other vulnerable groups

(c) Full and effective participation and inclusion in society

(ii) To promote positive perceptions and greater social awareness towards persons with disabilities

(k) Promote vocational and professional rehabilitation, job retention and return to work programmes for persons with disabilities.

(t) Highlighting the fact that the majority of persons with disabilities live in conditions of poverty, and in this regard recognizing the critical need to address the negative impact of poverty on persons with disabilities,

(j) Recognizing the need to promote and protect the human rights of all persons with disabilities, including those who require more intensive support,

Welcoming the opening for signature of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities,Resolution 61 106, annex I. particularly as it explicitly recognizes the specific situation of girls with disabilities,

This multi disciplinary field of enquiry draws on the experiences and perspectives of people with disabilities to address discrimination.

(d) Respect for difference and acceptance of persons with disabilities as part of human diversity and humanity

In 2006, the UN formally agreed the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities to protect and enhance the rights and opportunities of disabled people, including those with psychosocial disabilities.

(a) Have the right to acquire and change a nationality and are not deprived of their nationality arbitrarily or on the basis of disability

Welcoming the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Optional Protocol theretoResolution 61 106, annexes I and II. on 13 December 2006,

(b) Fostering at all levels of the education system, including in all children from an early age, an attitude of respect for the rights of persons with disabilities

(a) Enjoy access to cultural materials in accessible formats

(iii) To promote recognition of the skills, merits and abilities of persons with disabilities, and of their contributions to the workplace and the labour market

(c) To provide training for stakeholders on accessibility issues facing persons with disabilities

(b) Facilitating access by persons with disabilities to quality mobility aids, devices, assistive technologies and forms of live assistance and intermediaries, including by making them available at affordable cost

Article 29 Participation in political and public life

Affirming that ensuring and promoting the full realization of all human rights and fundamental freedoms for all persons with disabilities is critical to achieving internationally agreed development goals,

(c) To take into account the protection and promotion of the human rights of persons with disabilities in all policies and programmes

Even those with disabilities have not been spared. Writer and disability activist Salil Chaturvedi, who uses a wheelchair, was assaulted from behind for not standing.

(d) Enable persons with disabilities to have effective access to general technical and vocational guidance programmes, placement services and vocational and continuing training

2. States Parties shall ensure that persons with disabilities are not held in slavery or in servitude, and are protected, on an equal basis with others, from forced or compulsory labour.

(b) Facilitating and supporting capacity building, including through the exchange and sharing of information, experiences, training programmes and best practices

1. States Parties undertake to ensure and promote the full realization of all human rights and fundamental freedoms for all persons with disabilities without discrimination of any kind on the basis of disability. To this end, States Parties undertake

(g) To promote access for persons with disabilities to new information and communications technologies and systems, including the Internet

2. States Parties shall ensure the rights and responsibilities of persons with disabilities, with regard to guardianship, wardship, trusteeship, adoption of children or similar institutions, where these concepts exist in national legislation in all cases the best interests of the child shall be paramount. States Parties shall render appropriate assistance to persons with disabilities in the performance of their child rearing responsibilities.

(a) Persons with disabilities have the opportunity to choose their place of residence and where and with whom they live on an equal basis with others and are not obliged to live in a particular living arrangement

2. States Parties shall promote the development of initial and continuing training for professionals and staff working in habilitation and rehabilitation services.