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Part 1: Introducing the United Nations Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities

This part gives you an introduction to the Convention. It covers:

  • What is the United Nations Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities?
  • Why did this Convention come about?
  • Why is the Convention important for disabled people in Britain?
  • Who has rights under the Convention?
  • What obligations does the Convention put on the government?
  • Reservations
  • How does the Convention relate to domestic legislation, in particular the Human Rights Act and the Equality Duty?
  • Whose job is it to implement the Convention?
  • What role do the Equality and Human Rights Commission and the Scottish Human Rights Commission have?
  • What role do disabled people and their organisations have?
  • The role of the United Nations
     

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Resources

Other human rights publications from the Commission:

  • A Lever for Change: Using the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
  • From local voices to global audience: Engaging with the International Convention for the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (pdf)
  • Human rights and the public sector: Deconstructing the myths (Guardian Public supplement)

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