Dear Colin,
The Universal Declaration is not binding on the signatories - that is one of its
weaknesses. It is merely a common standard, with no legal force at all.
Jeremy.
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Sheffield Institute of Biotechnological Law and Ethics (SIBLE),
Department of Law,
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Quoting Colin Revell <[log in to unmask]>:
> Cindy
>
> I always thought that the UN Declaration was a 'binding-law' within
> Internatioanl law for all 'the-states' who signed the UN Declartion for
> Human Rights in 1948.
>
> Do others know if this correct?
>
> Yours
>
> Colin
>
>
>
>
> >From: Cindy Smith <[log in to unmask]>
> >To: Colin Revell <[log in to unmask]>
> >Subject: Re: [DISABILITY-RESEARCH] FW: [DisabilityConvention] Why then
> >disabled people need our own UN Disability Convention?
> >Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 09:12:09 -0700 (PDT)
> >
> >Hi Colin,
> >
> >I did some research on this for a class of mine--The Universal Declaration
> >is not 'binding law" in that it lists rights that should be universal to
> >all humans but does not require states to sign on to it as binding law in
> >their state--therefore it is more a set of ideals whereas the UN Convention
>
> >on Persons with Disabilties--like other conventions--will required states
> >to sign and ratify for it to enter into force--therefore becoming binidng
> >law superseeding indiivdual state law--if you go to the National Council of
>
> >Disability--www.ncd.gov--and type in international human rights--you'll get
>
> >a bunch of documents that expalin the differences.
> >
> >Cindy
> >
> >Colin Revell <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >1/8/05
> >
> >To Everyone
> >
> >I will ask you this same question(again), within the UN Disability
> >Convention and UN Disability Convention-2, like I did over a week ago(22nd
> >July), but I got no answers, so I'll try again and also send it to
> >Danmai(UK
> >Disability Network) too and Disability Research forum to see if I get any
> >answers there??
> >
> >You have got my permission of 'copyleft' to share this with others around
> >the globe.... Here we go again, so please....
> >
> >Can someone please explain to be why then disabled people need our own UN
> >Disability Convention, when we already have the protection within the
> >Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
> >
> >Are we then 'less then human' then?
> >
> >I need to remind people that...On December 10, 1948 the General Assembly of
> >the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of
> >Human
> >Rights. " I can't remember disabled people being 'exluded' from this, can
> >you?
> >
> >Are not then all disabled people then not given full legal protection under
> >the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, or as I said are we 'aliens from
> >a different planet' and not then afforded the 'equal' protections within
> >these same basic human rights and civil liberties as non disabled people?
> >
> >I've heard that if we don't watch it, that we could be 'cutting our own
> >noses off to spite our faces' and falling into a 'deadly-trap' and the UN
> >Disability Convention will actually weaken our basic human rights and civil
> >liberties, not strenghten them within it's current context.
> >
> >So don't say I didn't warn you all!!
> >
> >Yours
> >
> >Colin R
> >
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