Tuesday, May 13, 2008

UN celebrates disability treaty

The UN is celebrating the coming into force of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) - a landmark agreement that aims to give the world's 650m disabled people full equality. Adopted in 2006, and opened for signature in March last year it took effect on 3 May a month after the 20th nation ratified it - in this case Ecuador. (Snip) Disabled women are said to be ''multiply disadvantaged'' because they experience exclusion on account of their gender and their impairment...

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