Promoting the rights of persons with disabilities: Full participation and equality in social life and development

• Ad Hoc Committee to consider proposals for a comprehensive and integral international convention to promote and protect the rights and dignity of persons with disabilities
• zie ook: Naar een wettelijk bindend instrument van de Verenigde Naties ter bevordering en bescherming van de rechten en de waardigheid van personen met een handicap (TK 22112, nr. 267). Fiche nr. 2 in de brief d.d. 22 april 2003 van de Staatssecretaris van Buitenlandse Zaken inzake nieuwe Commissievoorstellen en initiatieven van de lidstaten van de Europese Unie.

• Verenigde Naties | Social Development Commission urged to approve supplement to broaden, enhance existing rules on persons with disabilities (UN.org, 6 February 2004). With international civil society driving the disability movement as a force for global social change, and with United Nations Member States entering final negotiations on an international convention to protect the rights of persons with disabilities, the United Nations’ top expert on the issue today urged the Commission on Social Development to approve a set of measures that would strengthen existing safeguards for that often overlooked segment of society.