Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
states parties
states that have signed, but not ratified
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| Drafted | 13 December 2006 |
|---|---|
| Signed | 30 March 2007 |
| Location | New York |
| Effective | 3 May 2008 |
| Condition | 20 ratifications |
| Signatories | 164 |
| Parties | 192 |
| Depositary | Secretary-General of the United Nations |
| Languages | Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish |
The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities[1] is an international human rights treaty of the United Nations intended to protect the rights and dignity of persons with disabilities. Parties to the convention are required to promote, protect, and ensure the full enjoyment of human rights by persons with disabilities and ensure that persons with disabilities enjoy full equality under the law. The Convention serves as a major catalyst in the global disability rights movement enabling a shift from viewing persons with disabilities as objects of charity, medical treatment and social protection towards viewing them as full and equal members of society, with human rights.[2][3][4] The convention was the first U.N. human rights treaty of the twenty-first century.[5]
The text was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 13 December 2006,[6] and opened for signature on 30 March 2007. Following ratification by the 20th party, it came into force on 3 May 2008.[7] As of April 2025, it has 164 signatories and 193 parties, 192 states and the European Union (which ratified it on 23 December 2010).[8] The convention is monitored by the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities for which annual Conferences of States Parties to the CRPD have set guidelines since 2008. The thirteenth Conference of States Parties was scheduled to meet in New York in June 2020, then rescheduled tentatively to meet in December 2020[9] due to the COVID-19 crisis.[10]
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- ^ "General Assembly Adopts Groundbreaking Convention, Optional Protocol on Rights of Persons with Disabilities" (Press release). New York: United Nations. 13 December 2006.
- ^ United Nations General Assembly Session 61 Resolution 106. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities A/RES/61/106 13 December 2006. Retrieved 24 July 2023. "alternate link: https://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/migration/generalassembly/docs/globalcompact/A_RES_61_106.pdf"
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- ^ "UN Treaty Collection: parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: List of parties". United Nations. 12 October 2016. Retrieved 20 April 2017.
- ^ "Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities". United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs. Retrieved 30 July 2020.
- ^ "Communication to Member States and other Stakeholders from the Secretariat of the Conference of the States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Postponement of the thirteenth session of the Conference due to the worldwide outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic to Member States and other stakeholders" (PDF). United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs. 23 March 2020. Retrieved 7 August 2020.