2 JULY 2009 9 JUNE 2009 6 FEBRUARY 2009 UNA-UK’s Executive Director Sam Daws has written to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and the Minister for Disabled People to urge the UK to ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Over 10 million people in the UK will benefit from the protections offered by the convention. The CRPD does not create new rights but ensures that people with disabilities enjoy the same rights as everyone else. It covers a number of areas in which disabled people have not traditionally enjoyed their rights, notably education, employment, health, political participation, access to justice, accessibility and mobility in society. British efforts at the UN were instrumental in establishing this human rights treaty, and the UK was one of the first countries to sign it. But campaigners have expressed concern over the delay in ratification and the reservations to it that the government has indicated it might make. The government has said it will ratify the treaty in spring 2009. UNA-UK believes that the UK should ratify the convention immediately and without any reservations. Click here to read the letter. Click here to visit UN Enable, the Secretariat for the CRPD. |
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