Creating a fairer Britain
Many European and international organisations have developed Convention Guides and toolkits. Here are but a few:
Disabled Peoples' International is an international umbrella organisation of disabled people’s organisations. Their aim is to promote the human rights of all disabled people through full participation, equality of opportunity and international cooperation. They have developed an implementation toolkit.
Their have also produced a guide to organising a workshop to raise awareness of the Convention.
The European Disability Forum is the European umbrella organisation for European disability organisations and national disabled people’s organisations. Their website has information about how the Convention relates to the European Union.
Their website also has contact details for European disability organisations.
The International Disability Alliance is the network of international disabled people’s organisations promoting the effective implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Their website has information related to capacity-building of disabled people’s organisations as well as background to the Convention.
They have also produced a guide on shadow reporting.
The Making it Work (MIW) initiative is a global multi-stakeholder initiative to promote effective implementation of the CRPD. Its aims are the exchange of good practice and promoting advocacy about ending poverty, social exclusion and discrimination against disabled people over the world.
We have published a guide about the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women.
The Children’s Rights Alliance for England provides information about the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child including a campaigning toolkit.
Other human rights publications from the Commission: