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U.S. to UN: We Won't Sign Disability Rights Treaty
By: Nan Hawthorne
Summary:
The United States has declined to sign a United Nations Disability Rights Treaty. Its explanation: "We don't need to."
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June 25, 2003
The United States has informed the United Nations that, although it supports the concept of rights for people with disabilities, it will not sign any disability rights treaty to come out of the international body.
According to Dave Reynolds of Inclusion Daily Express <http://www.InclusionDaily.com> , Ralph Boyd, U.S. assistant attorney general for civil rights, explained that the Bush Administration favors national initiatives, "comprehensive domestic laws protecting those with disabilities," such as the Americans with Disabilities Act, instead of taking a global approach.
The United Nations affirmed inclusion of the rights of people with disabilities in its human rights and social development policies in its resolution 57/229 of December 18, 2002. That resolution established conventions for such policies in all member nations and states. It formed the Ad Hoc Committee to consider proposals on a Comprehensive and Integral International Convention on Promotion and Protection of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities. This committee met for the second time on June 16, 2003, at the United Nations in New York City as hundreds of disabilities rights advocates from many countries demonstrated outside.
Disabilities advocates have expressed disappointment that the Bush Administration, with all its emphasis on the rights of people with disabilities and its New Freedoms Initiative, will not take a stronger stand in the support of the United Nations initiative.
Pointing to the positive impact of earlier treaties about the rights of women and of children, Tomas Lagerwall, secretary general of Rehabilitation International <http://www.rehab-international.org/> , calls for a similar worldwide convention on the rights of people with disabilities. "The existing legislation is not enough," says Lagerwall. "Why should this group of people not have the same rights as other citizens?"
Some of the current work the Ad Hoc Committee and affiliated groups are doing on this initiative include refining the definition of "people with disabilities," studying policies of governments around the world and beginning to establish statistics about the existence or lack of human rights of people with disabilities.
To learn more about the United Nations effort to support the full participation, development and equality of individuals with disabilities in social life, see United Nations eNABLE <http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/enable/> .
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