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Report and Treaty to Promote Rights of the Disabled According to the World Health Organization, nearly 600 million people throughout the world live with a disability. At present, the treatment of people with disabilities varies widely from country to country.Ý Some nations have model legislation that mandates the fair and equal rights of people with disabilities to access, education and employment; other countries subject people with disabilities to horrific and degrading treatment, warehousing them in institutions designed to remove them from society. The Center for International Rehabilitation and Disabled Peoples' International released a first-ever report in June that provides a comparative analysis of the living conditions and legal protections for people with disabilities in 52 countries around the world. The Disability Rights Compendium is the first publication of the International Disability Rights Monitor (IDRM), a project that for the first time will observe and report on the human rights of people with disabilities worldwide. The report came as the United Nations began two weeks of historic meetings to debate a proposed International Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities.Ý The AP reported that previous attempts to introduce a U.N. convention for the disabled have languished. But delegates from more than 50 countries said after the June talks, that it appeared this time there was enough momentum for a treaty, possibly by 2007.Ý The US government indicated it probably did not plan to sign the pact. For more information about the Report and the Treaty please visit www.cirnetwork.org and http://www.landminesurvivors.org/stories/article.php?id=222 |
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