Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Advocacy Toolkit

New York; Geneva: United Nations; Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, 2008. — 62 p. — Professional Training Series No. 15.
(Автор не указан).This toolkit is designed to support efforts by United Nations-managed and supported mine action centres to advocate for the ratification and implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its Optional Protocol. It was developed with the assistance of the United Nations Mine Action Team (UNMAT) and in coordination with Survivor Corps. The toolkit has undergone a small field validation test. Additionally, it has been further reviewed by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the United Nations Children’s Fund, and their input has been incorporated.
The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities opened for signature on 30 March 2007 and entered into force on 3 May 2008. It is the culmination of five years of negotiations and decades of struggle by persons with disabilities and allied advocacy organizations to achieve global recognition of disability as a human rights issue. The strong political support from a wide array of actors ensured that this was the most rapidly negotiated human rights treaty to date. The Convention is a paradigm shift in the treatment of persons with disabilities from a medical or charity perspective to a rights-based approach, ensuring that persons with disabilities have access and can participate in decisions that affect their lives and seek redress for violations of their rights. By 1 July 2008, 29 States had ratified the Convention and 18 had ratified its Optional Protocol.