More ressources are also available in French on this page : https://www.firah.org/la-convention-relative-aux-droits-des-personnes-handicapees.html
“The purpose of the Convention is to promote, protect and ensure the full and equal enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms by all persons with disabilities, and to promote respect for their inherent dignity.”
The Convention in different versions :
[source: the United Nations]
[source: CFHE]
[source: World Federation of the Deaf]
Understanding and implementing the Convention
Gerard Quinn and Theresia Degener with Anna Bruce, Christian Burke, Dr Joshua Castellino, Padraic Kenna, Dr Ursula Kilkelly, Shiraun Quinlivan. Published by the United Nations. New York and Geneva, 2002.
The United Nations requested this study to the High Commissioner for Human Rights at the beginning of the years 2000, before the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities was elaborated. It presents the consideration of disability matters in the already existing UN conventions. It underlines the limits of the Human Rights approach to the rights of people with disabilities and the necessity to be endowed with a specific Human Rights convention on the Rights of people with disabilities.
PDF version of the Human Rights and Disability study
United Nations, United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and Inter-parliamentary Union, 2007
This document is a guidebook for parliementarians to understand the Convention and be able to promote the rights of people with disabilities.
United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human RIhgts
This document is a guidebook for Human Rights monitors to be able to approach the rights of people with disabilities and the UN Convention.
PDF version of the guidebook
Marianne Schulze
Source: Handicap International
PDF version of the Handbook on the Human Rights of Persons with Disabilities
"The authors have embarked on a fascinating, original, and groundbreaking project to tell the story of how the CRPD came to be."—Michael Perlin, New York Law School
The United Nations adoption of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) constituted a paradigm shift in attitudes and approaches to disability rights, marking the first time in law-making history that persons with disabilities participated as civil society representatives and contributed to the drafting of an international treaty. On the way, they brought a new kind of diplomacy forward: empowering nongovernmental stakeholders, including persons with disabilities, within human rights discourse. This landmark treaty provides an opportunity to consider what it means to involve members of a global civil society in UN-level negotiations.
OHCHR has developed a training package on the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its Optional Protocol. The package consists of a Training Guide and eight modules.
The Training Guide seeks to provide basic information on a rights-based approach to disability, on the fundamental elements of the Convention and its Optional Protocol, and on the processes and issues underlying their ratification, implementation and monitoring.
The training modules can be used for developing training courses on the Convention and/or its Optional Protocol, but are also helpful as a general information resource on these two instruments.
Le Haut Commissariat aux droits de l’Homme a développé un support de formation sur la Convention ONU et son protocole facultatif. Le paquet est composé d’un guide de formation et de huit modules.
The OHCHR (Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights) regularly publishes studies on different thematics that help understanding the stakes of the Convention articles.
The first ever WHO/World Bank World report on disability reviews evidence about the situation of people with disabilities around the world. Following chapters on understanding disability and measuring disability, the report contains topic-specific chapters on health; rehabilitation; assistance and support; enabling environments; education; and employment. Within each chapter, there is a discussion of the barriers confronted, and case studies showing how countries have succeeded in addressing these by promoting good practice. In its final chapter, the report offers nine concrete recommendations for policy and practice which if put in place could lead to real improvements in the lives of people with disability.
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- Report webpage on World Health Organisation's website: list of all accessible versions, summaries
- Full report : accessible PDF version
Recommendations to develop guidelines on community-based rehabilitation (CBR) were made during the International Consultation to Review Community-based Rehabilitation which was held in Helsinki, Finland in 2003. WHO; the International Labour Organization; the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization; and the International Disability and Development Consortium – notably CBM, Handicap International, the Italian Association Amici di Raoul Follereau, Light for the World, the Norwegian Association of Disabled and Sightsavers – have worked closely together to develop the Community-based rehabilitation guidelines. More than 180 individuals and representatives of nearly 300 organizations, mostly from low-income and middle-income countries around the world, have been involved in their development.
European documents :
- European Disability Strategy (2012-2020): implementation of the UN Convention in the European Union
- European Disability Strategy [source: europa.eu]
- Full version of Europe 2020 Strategy
DOTCOM is constructed from a large database of information about national laws, policies, strategies and initiatives in the Member States of the European Union, its Candidate countries and other associated countries.
This tool was developped by the ANED (Academic Network of European Disability Experts) in collaboration with the European Commission and EU member states. It describes the state of the implementation of the Convention through various instruments in different countries.
It is very easy to use and useful to make an inventory of fixtures.
DOTCOM tool on Disability Europe website
Training materials:
OHCHR has developed a training package on the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its Optional Protocol. The package consists of a Training Guide and eight modules.
The Training Guide seeks to provide basic information on a rights-based approach to disability, on the fundamental elements of the Convention and its Optional Protocol, and on the processes and issues underlying their ratification, implementation and monitoring.
The training modules can be used for developing training courses on the Convention and/or its Optional Protocol, but are also helpful as a general information resource on these two instruments.
Websites with general information on the UN Convention including news
- Enable (Disability and the United Nations)
- United Nations Human Rights - Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights : disabilities issues
- IDA (International Disabilty Alliance)