The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its Optional Protocol (A/RES/61/106) was adopted on 13 December 2006 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, and was opened for ...

During the 2008 presidential campaign, Barack Obama promised to make the United States "a signatory to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities” and said he would "urge the U.S.

The government has revised Bhutan’s stance on the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, amending three ...

The Convention is a human rights instrument with an explicit social development dimension. It adopts a broad categorization of persons with disabilities and reaffirms that all persons with all types ...

Great news! Today, on the 19th anniversary of the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act, President Obama announced that his administration will be signing the United Nations Convention on the ...

The EU and its Member States have signed the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and use its definition of disability as a common reference at EU level.

More than 6,000 North Dakotans are currently receiving Developmental Disabilities Services. Since 1992, the United Nations ...

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has signed into law the Persons with Disabilities Bill (PWD Bill), replacing the outdated ...

Every December 3rd, the world observes the International Day of Persons with Disabilities to advance the rights, dignity, and ...

The Higher Council for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (HCD), in cooperation with UNESCO, on Sunday organized a dialogue workshop marking the International Day of Persons with Disabilities ...

Supported by UNESCO, the Women’s Media Centre of Cambodia (WMC), in cooperation with the Cambodian Disabled People’s ...