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The Signing of the First Convention to protect the 650 millions Persons with Disabilities
5/9/2006 On 2 September 2006, the United Nations signed the first UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The 650 millions persons with disabilities represent 10% of world population. The eighth session of the meetings of the committee entitled to prepare the convention witnessed difficult negotiations after the Arab delegates insisted that the convention has to include persons with disabilities suffering "under occupation", with reference to Israel. This irritated Washington and Tel Aviv delegates who perceived that this demand aims to "politicize the convention". A settlement was reached only to mention the occupation as "a threat for the disabled" at the introduction of convention text, rather than including this in its main articles. The convention obliges countries to improve the situation of the disabled in stages. i.e., to construct new facilities and improve their opportunities in education and access to information and to adopt the measures which aims at the elimination of discrimination against them. Such measures may include, for instance, the abolition of laws which discriminate between disabled and healthy citizens. The convention also urges the countries to solve movement problems suffered by the disabled and to provide them with health services, employment opportunities, rehabilitation and participation in political life. The convention establishes an international mechanism to monitor the implementation of these commitments. |
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