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Special section on the efforts for a UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; International documents in regards to disability discrimination;National Disability Anti-discrimination laws; Disability Statistics; Disability Reality; LINKS; Academic Article;Newsarticle;
Special section on the efforts for a UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (adopted)
Links, papers and reports
- Annex
I Draft Comprehensive and Integral International Convention on the Protection
and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities
- International
Disability Caucus
- Ad Hoc
Committee on a Comprehensive and Integral International Convention on
the Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities
- Fifty-ninth
sessionFifty-ninth session Item 107 (b) of the provisional agenda* Human
rights questions: human rights questions, including
alternative approaches for improving the effective enjoyment of human rights
and fundamental freedoms Report of the Ad Hoc Committee on a Comprehensive
and Integral International Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the
Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities on its fourth session
- Fourth Session
of the Ad Hoc Committee
- Documents
of the Fourth Session
- The International Disability
Rights Monitor NEW very extensive
- My
comment on the Draft 16th May version Text of Elements for a United Nations
Comprehensive and Integral International Convention to Promote and Protect
the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities by Gregor
Wolbring
- The
problem of using a undefined term of person in the convention. by
Gregor Wolbring
- Personhood some
definitions VERY IMPORTANT
- UN
Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities Working Group Daily
Summary Volume 3, #1 January 5, 2004 NEW
- UN
Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities Working Group Daily
Summary Volume 3, #2 January 6, 2004 NEW
- UN
Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities Working Group Daily
Summary Volume 3, #2 January 7, 2004 NEW
- UN
Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities Working Group Daily
Summary Volume 3, #2 January 8, 2004 NEW
- Regional
Workshop towards a Comprehensive and Integral International Convention on
Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities
Bangkok, Thailand, 14-17 October 2003
- Who should
be covered by the Convention Very important for the Bankog 2003 meeting
- Towards
a UN Disability Convention IDA positionpaper
- DPI
POSITION PAPERREGARDING A NEW INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS CONVENTION FOR
DISABLED PEOPLE
- DPI-Japan
Position Paper: Regarding a New International Convention on Human Rights
for Persons with Disabilities
-
Establishing a United States Disability Human Rights Campaign Discussion
paper
- United
States Disability Human Rights Campaign: Proposal for an InterimCampaign
Coordination Structure
- World
Blind UnionManifesto for a United Nations Convention on the Rights of
People with Disabilities
- COMMISSION
OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIESBrussels, 24.1.2003 COM(2003) 16 final COMMUNICATION
FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE COUNCIL AND THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT Towards a United
Nations legally binding instrument to promote and protect the rights and dignity
of persons with disabilities
- European
Disability Forum Position
- Inclusion
International ^Ö Statement by Klaus Lachwitz
- IDA
Statement ^ÓTowards a UN Disability Convention
- Joint
declaration of the European Trade Union Confederation and the European
Disability Forum
- The
EDF contribution to the COHOM Working Group preparing the EU position
on the UN Convention
- Article
13 of the Treaty of Amsterdam
- regional seminar
in Quito
- Anna
Diamantopoulou speech at Conference on Politics for Disabled
- Frank Mulcahy
address at NDA Seminar
- Comments from an Internet consultation
on the Text of Elements for a United Nations Comprehensive and Integral International
Convention to Promote and Protect the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities
- Search the DatabaseThis
database is based on the 21 May 1999 version of the Compilation of International
Norms and Standards relating to Disability
- Text of Elements
for a United Nations Comprehensive and Integral International Convention to
Promote and Protect the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities
DRAFT 16 May 2002 ENGLISH ORIGINAL: SPANISH
- Principles
for Drafting a New Treaty A new Human Rights Treaty in a Disability
Framework
- Considerations
for the proposed International convention to promote and protect the rights
and dignity of persons with disabilities by John R. Mathiason
- What
Rights Should the Treaty Contain? Gerard Quinn, Rodrigo Jiménez,
Maria Soledad Cisterna and Marcia Rioux.
- It
is a Human Right to be able to live with a disability Elements to be included
in a convention on disability Kicki Nortström, World Blind Union.
- World Network of Users and
Survivors of Psychiatry their Comments to the convention draft
- 56/168.
Comprehensive and integral international convention to promote and protect
the rights and dignity of persons with disabilitiesResolution adopted
by the General Assembly [on the report of the Third Committee (A/56/583/Add.2)]
- On
The Path to Building a Comprehensive and Integral United Nations Convention
to Protect the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities
- DraftConvention
on the Fundamental Rights of Persons with Disabilities by Holger Kallehauge,
President PTU and High Court Judge in Denmark
- DRAFT
CONVENTION PROHIBITING DISCRIMINATION AGAINST DISABLED PERSONS Revision
by J.A.Wall
- The UN and Persons
with Disabilities 2001
- A primer
on the Standard Rules on the Equalization of Opportunities for persons with
disabilities.
- INTERREGIONAL
SEMINAR AND SYMPOSIUM ON INTERNATIONAL NORMS AND STANDARDS RELATING TO DISABILITY
1999
- Informal
Consultative Meeting onInternational Norms and Standards for Persons with
Disabilities 2001
- "Let
the World Know"Report of a Seminar on Human Rights and Disability Almåsa
Conference Centre (Stockholm, November 5-9, 2000)
- Report on
the Regional Training Workshop on the Inclusion of Women and Girls with
Disabilities in Mainstream Gender Equality Initiatives, 16-23 June 2001, Phitsanulok,
Thailand
- Overview
of International Legal Frameworks 1998
- Report
of the United Nations ConsultativeExpert Group Meeting on International
Norms and Standards
Relating to Disability 1998
- COMPILATION
OF INTERNATIONAL NORMS AND STANDARDS RELATING TO DISABILITY 1999
- Disability
Law resource very good
- United Nations
expert group meeting on disability-sensitive policy and programme monitoring
and evaluationCountry Paper: Ecuador By Julio Mantilla Arias, December
2001 NEW
- An
International Disability and Human Rights Convention What you need to
know about international human rights law and efforts to gain equality and
justice for people with disabilities in the US and abroad.An Education and
Outreach Tool for the US Grassroots Disability Community National Council
on Disability July 2002 NEW
- Declaration on the Rights
of Disabled Persons Proclaimed by General Assembly resolution 3447 (XXX)
of 9 December 1975
Legal decisions defining disability/and address disability
discrimination
- The Supremes
still don't 'get it':
- Sutton
v United States, 1998 1998 At Issue: Whether nearsightedness that
can be corrected with glasses or contact lenses is a "disability" under the
Americans With Disabilities Act.
Decision: The court ruled that the Americans With Disabilities Act does not
cover people whose disabilities can be sufficiently corrected with medicine,
eyeglasses or other measures. full
textSUTTON et al. v. UNITED AIR LINES, INC. certiorari to the united states
court of appeals for the tenth circuit No. 97-1943. Argued April 28, 1999--Decided
June 22, 1999
- Murphy
v. United Parcel Service At Issue: Whether medication or other mitigating
measures should be considered in assessing if an individual is "disabled"
under the terms of the Americans With Disabilities Act. Decision: The justices
ruled that the condition the petitioner suffers and controls with medication
is not considered "disabling" under the Americans With Disabilities Act. The
condition and medication preclude him from performing only a particular job
and do not substantially limit him in employment. full
text MURPHY v. UNITED PARCEL SERVICE, INC. certiorari to the united states
court of appeals for the tenth circuit No. 97-1992. Argued April 27, 1999--Decided
June 22, 1999
Definitions of Disabilities/Perception of Disabilities
International documents in regards to disability discrimination
- Equality
and non-discriminationAnnual report 2004 ISSN 1725-4736European Commission
Directorate-General for Employment and Social Affairs Unit D.3
- Illness,
Disability and Social Inclusion:European Foundation for the Improvement
of Living and Working Conditions, 2003
- Emerging
Social Issues: Trends and Approaches ^Ö The Rights-Based Approach to Social
Development (UNESCAP, 2003, PDF format):
- Disabled
People International (DPI) Newsletter
- European
Disability Forum Non discrimination: Policy issues Europe´s
first comprehensive Disability rights law EDF is a European umbrella organisation
representing more than 37 million disabled people in Europe. Its mission is
to ensure disabled citizens' full access to fundamental and human rights through
their active involvement in policy development and implementation in the European
Union.
- NCD
AnInternationalConventionontheHumanRightsofPeoplewithDisabilities
- Persons
with disabilities in documents and speechesat the 41st session of the
United Nations Commission
for Social Development New York, 10-21 February 2003 Edited by Anneli Joneken,
Sweden
- Anna
Diamantopoulou European Commissioner responsible for Employment and Social
Affairs
Opening ceremony of Conference on "Politics for Disabled People"
Launch of the European Year of People with Disabilities 2003 in Germany Magdeburg,
21 February 2003
- Disability
NGO declaration Europe
- European
Year of People with DisabilitiesNorwegian 2003 MANIFESTO
- United NationsGeneral
Assembly Economic and Social Council Review and appraisal of the World Programme
of Action concerning Disabled Persons Report of the Secretary-General 26 December
2002
- Counccil
of Europe Parliamentary AssemblyDoc. 9632 10 December 2002 Towards full
social inclusion of persons with disabilities
- ILO document
on Right to work
- Documentation
of Persons with Disabilities at the 41st session of theUnited Nations
Commission for Social Development
- UN Standard Rules
on Equalization of Opportunities for Disabled Persons
- The Standard
Rules on the Equalization of Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities".
Official Records of the General Assembly, Forty-eighth Session, Supplement
No. 49 (A/48/49), vol. 1, chap. VII, General Assembly resolution 48/96, annex,
of 20 December 1993
- Principles for the
protection of persons with mental illness and the improvement of mental health
care". Official Records of the General Assembly, Forty-sixth Session, Supplement
No. 49 (A/46/49), vol. 1, chap. VII, General Assembly resolution 46/119 of
17 December 1991
- Declaration on
the Rights of Mentally Retarded Persons". Official Records of the General
Assembly, Twenty-sixth Session, Supplement No. 29 (A/8429), Proclaimed by
General Assembly resolution 2856 (XXVI) of 20 December 1971
- Declaration on the
Rights of Disabled Persons". Official Records of the General Assembly, Thirtieth
Session, Supplement No. 34 (A/10034), Proclaimed by General Assembly resolution
3447 (XXX) of 9 December 1975
- Committee on Economic, Social
Rights and Cultural Rights; General Comment No. 5 - "Persons with disabilities:
09/12/94" (Eleventh session, 1994). Official Records of the Economic and Social
Council, Supplement No. 3 (E/1995/22) annex IV
- Committee on
the Elimination of Discrimination against Women; General Recommendation No.
19 - "Disabled women: 04/01/91" (Tenth Session, 1991). Official Records of
the General Assembly, Forty-sixth Session, Supplement No. 38 (A/46/38); Report
of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (Tenth
session)
- UN
Economic and Social Council resolution 1997/20 Children with disabilities
- International
Labour Organization. Recommendation No 168, "Vocational Rehabilitation and
Employment (Disabled Persons) Recommendation, 1983
- United Nations.
World Programme of Action concerning Disabled Persons (A/37/351/Add.1 and
Corr.1, annex, sect. VIII, recommendation I (IV) adopted by the General Assembly
resolution 37/52 of 3 December 1982.
- Review and appraisal
of the World Programme of Action concerning Disabled Persons; report of the
Secretary-General (A/52/351
- Monitoring the
implementation of the Standard Rules on the Equalization of Opportunities
for Persons with Disabilities; Final report of the Special Rapporteur of the
Commission for Social Development on monitoring the implementation of the
Standard Rules on the Equalization of Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities
(A/52/56, annex)
- Declaration on the
Rights of Disabled Persons, G.A. res. 3447 (XXX), 30 U.N. GAOR Supp. (No.
34) at 88, U.N. Doc. A/10034 (1975).
- European
Parlament among others the following : Resolution of the Council and the
Ministers for Education meeting within the Council of 31 May 1990 concerning
integration of children and young people with disabilities into ordinary systems
of education
Official journal NO. C 162 , 03/07/1990 P. 0002 - 0003
Resolution of the Council and of the Representatives of the Governments of
the Member States meeting within the Council of 20 December 1996 on equality
of opportunity for people with disabilities
Official Journal C 012 , 13/01/1997 p. 0001 - 0002
Council Resolution of 17 June 1999 on equal employment opportunities for people
with disabilities
Official Journal C 186 , 02/07/1999 p. 0003 - 0004
- Resolution
of the EuropeanCouncil and the Ministers for Education meeting within the
Council of 31 May 1990 concerning integration of children and young people
with disabilities into ordinary systems of education Official journal NO.
C 162 , 03/07/1990 P. 0002 - 0003
- Committee on
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, General Comment No. 5, Persons with
disabilities (Eleventh session, 1994), U.N. Doc E/C.12/1994/13 (1994)
relates to the below International Covenants on Human Rights
- International Covenants
on Human Rights
- Organization
of American States. "Inter-American Convention on the Elimination of All Forms
of Discrimination against Persons with Disabilities AG/RES.1608" (XXIX-0/99)
- Organization
of American States. "Panama Commitment to Persons with Disabilities in the
American Hemisphere AG/RES 1369" (XXVI-0/96)
- United Nations.
Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific "Asian and Pacific
Decade of Disabled Persons (1993-2002)". Official Records of the Economic
and Social Council, Supplement No. 11 (E/1992/31); Annual report of the Economic
and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (Forty-eight session) chap.
IV, Commission resolution 48/3 of 23 April 1992, "Asian and Pacific Decade
of Disabled Persons, 1993-2002"
- Proclamation
on the Full Participation and Equality of People with Disabilities in the
Asian and Pacific Region
National Disability Anti-discrimination laws
- Draft
Disability Discrimination Bill UK December 2003 NEW
- NCDNational
Council on Disability Policy Brief Series: Righting the ADA No. 12 The Supreme
Court's ADA Decisions and Per Se Disabilities March 19, 2003 USA
- NCD
more on ADA USA
- Disablity Discrimination
Acts Solidarity in Korea (DDASK)
- Acts In Disability
INDIA such as The Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities,
Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995 The
Rehabilitation Council of India Act, 1992
The Mental Health Act, 1987 The National Trust for the Welfare
of Persons with Autism, Cerebral Palsy, Mental Retardation and Multiple Disabilities
Act, 1999 Employees State Insurance Act, 1948
- Title: DISABILITY DISCRIMINATION
ORDINANCE HONG KONG 1997
- Gesetz
zur Gleichstellung behinderter Menschen und zur Änderung anderer Gesetze
Germany 2002
- Act No. XXVI. of
1998 ON PROVISION OF THE RIGHTS OF PERSONS LIVING WITH DISABILITY AND THEIR
EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY THe text says 1981 but I assume it means 1998
as the below policy paper says the same 1998
- The Hungarian Civil Liberties
Union [HCLU] supportive policy paper of an Anti Discrimination law in
Hungary such as Act XXVI of 1998
- Country
Laws Index
- LAW OF THE PEOPLE' S REPUBLIC
OF CHINA ON THE PROTECTION OF DISABLED PERSONS 1990
- The
Americans with Disabilities Act Policy Brief Series: NCD National Council
on Disability A Carefully Constructed Law October 30, 2002
- Bolivia:LEY
N; 1678: LEY DE 15 DE DICIEMBRE DE 1995
- Bolivia:LEY
N; 1678: LEY DE 15 DE DICIEMBRE DE 1995 Title of Law and Scope Law N;
1678 of Persons with Disabilities english summary
- Canadian
charter of rights and freedoms
- Employment
Equity Act -- CHAPTER E-5 Canada
- Chile LEY
N 19.284
- http://dredf.org/symposium/china.html
- costa rica:
LEY No 7600
- Ecuador:
LEY SOBRE DISCAPACIDADES N; 180
- Ethiopia:
Proclamation n; 101/1994
- Ethiopia:
LABOUR PROCLAMATION N;42 OF 1993.
- The Constitution
of Finland - Text of the Constitution
- http://dredf.org/symposium/francepenal.html
- Legifrance,
l'essentiel du Droit français
- France,
Loi n; 91-663 du 13 juillet 1991
- Décret
no 98-543 du 30 juin 1998 relatif à l'application à certaines
catégories d'agents relevant du ministre chargé de l'éducation
nationale de l'article 27 de la loi no 75-534 du 30 juin 1975 d'orientation
en faveur des personnes handicapées
- Décret
no 99-756 du 31 août 1999 relatif aux prescriptions techniques concernant
l'accessibilité aux personnes handicapées de la voirie publique
ou privée ouverte à la circulation publique pris pour l'application
de l'article 2 de la loi no 91-663 du 13 juillet 1991
- Décret
no 99-757 du 31 août 1999 relatif à l'accessibilité aux
personnes handicapées de la voirie publique ou privée ouverte
à la circulation publique devant faire l'objet des aménagements
prévus par l'article 2 de la loi no 91-663 du 13 juillet 1991
- http://dredf.org/symposium/germany.html
- Ghanaconstitution
- Ghana:THE
DISABLED PERSONS ACT
- ICL - Hungary
- Constitution
- Welcome
to Adobe GoLive 5 Equalization Opportunity Law (Act no. XXVI of 1998)
- http://dredf.org/symposium/india.html
- CHAPTER ONE:
BASIC PRINCIPLES Israel
- korea2
- korea3
- LOI N;97-044
SUR LES PERSONNES HANDICAPEES, Madagascar
- extraits du
code du travail, madagascar
- Malawi's Constitution:
Final Draft
- Malawi No.
48 of 1971
- MAURITUS:
Act No. 9 of 1996
- NAMIBIA: Abstracts
of the Labour Act 1992 concerning disability.
- NAMIBIA: Abstracts
of the Labour Act 1992 concerning disability.
- New Zealand.
Human Rights
- Nigeria NIGERIANS
WITH DISABILITY DECREE 1993
- Panam·:
CODIGO DE LA FAMILIA LEY NUM 3 DEL 17/05/1994
- Paraguay:LABOUR
CODE OF 1961
- PARAGUAY:
POLITICAL CONSITUTION OF 1992
- http://dredf.org/symposium/philippines.html
- ICL - South
Africa - Constitution
- REPUBLIC
OF SOUTH AFRICA: EMPLOYMENT EQUITY BILL
- SPconst
Spain
- Welcome
to GoLive CyberStudioSri Lanca
- sweden2
- http:// Switzerland
- Uganda's
Constitution: Chapter 4
- http://dredf.org/symposium/uk1.html
- Disability Rights
Commission Act 1999 UK
- Venezuela :
Ley para la integraciÛn de las personas incapacitadas
- http:// Zambia
- Zimbabwe: DISABLED
PERSONS ACT, 1992
- From Special Needs
to Equal Rights: Japanese Disability Law Kathrine Heyer
- DISABILITY
DISCRIMINATION ACT 1992 Australia
- DISABILITY
DISCRIMINATION REGULATIONS 1996 Australia
- http://search.aph.gov.au/search/ParlInfo.ASP?WCI=HtmlView&Item=0&ResultsID=8xIqd&action=view&WCU
Disability Discrimination Amendment Bill 2002 No. , 2002
- Madrid Declaration
- Beijing
Declaration on the Rights of People with Disabilities in the New Century
2000
Disability Statistics
.
Reports
- Bengt Lindqvist - UN Special Rapporteur on Disability - Surveys About the implementation of the Standard Rules
- Benefits and Services for Persons with Disabilities In UNISOn 2000 CANADA
- Equity 2000 - Progress of the designated groups: People with Disabilities
- http://www.caledoninst.org/PDF/553820053.pdf The Canada Pension Plan Disability Benefit Sherri Torjman, February 2002. This report presents a policy history of the Canada Pension Plan disability benefit. It discusses the strengths and unique features of this national program, trends in caseload and cost, key issues related to the disability benefit, appeals procedures and options for reform.
- http://www.caledoninst.org/PDF/55382010X.pdfMedicure Sherri Torjman, February 2002. This op ed points out how the loss of the Canada Assistance Plan in 1996 shook the foundation of community supports that help keep people out of hospital and decimated the systems of community care that enable patients to return or remain at home. The lack of community supports has created serious pressures for Canada's health care system.
- http://www.caledoninst.org/PDF/553820096.pdf From Trade-Off to Trade-Up Sherri Torjman, February 2002
This paper, presented at the Arthur Kroeger College of Public Affairs, argues that economic competitiveness and social cohesion are not a trade-off, but rather are intrinsically linked. It discusses three key means of advancing an integrated economic and social agenda: through practices, decision-making and trade standards that integrate competitiveness and cohesion.
LINKS
Academic Article
Newsarticle
- GENERAL
ASSEMBLY REITERATES CONDEMNATION OF TERRORISM; ADOPTS 65 RESOLUTIONS ON SOCIAL,
HUMANITARIAN ISSUES, 16 BY RECORDED VOTEU.N. General Assembly on 19 December
2001 adopted the resolution on the international convention to promote and
protect the rights and dignity of persons with disabilities, without a vote,
according to the UN press release, The text reads By resolution XXII, on
a comprehensive and integral international convention to promote and protect
the rights and dignity of persons with disabilities, the Assembly would decide
to establish an ad hoc committee open to the participation of Member States
and observers of the United Nations to consider proposals for such a convention.
It would call upon States and the regional commissions, in cooperation with
the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Division for Social
Policy and Development and the Special Rapporteur of the Commission for Social
Development on monitoring the implementation of the Standard Rules on the
Equalization of Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities, to hold regional
meetings or seminars to contribute to the work of the ad hoc committee by
making recommendations regarding the content and practical measures that should
be considered in the international convention. Resolution XX, on human rights
and mass exodus, was adopted without vote, as were resolutions XXI on the
United Nations Decade for Human Rights Education, resolution XXII on the comprehensive
and integral international convention to promote and protect the rights and
dignity of persons with disabilities, and resolution XXIII on the situation
of human rights in Cambodia.
