The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) was adopted by the UN General Assembly on 13 December 2006 and entered into force in 2007. It is one of the core international human-rights treaties, with its own monitoring body — the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
DPI’s World Assemblies called for the Convention and welcomed its adoption, and DPI helped form the International Disability Caucus that spoke with one voice during the negotiations. As the Seoul Declaration put it, the Convention is “by us and for us and all of humanity”.
Ratification, implementation, monitoring
Signing a Convention does not make a country a State Party — ratification does. DPI encourages every country to ratify the Convention and its Optional Protocol, and to move quickly from ratification to implementation. Implementation is more than monitoring a treaty body: DPI’s toolkit frames it as the “ABCs” — adopt a rights-based vision, build a constituency for change, and count successes and setbacks — with an environmental scan and a SWOT analysis of each article.
Resources
- CRPD Ratification Toolkit
- CRPD Implementation Toolkit
- DPI Position Papers on the Convention (2004)
Find these in the Resources library.