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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