Advocating for the UN CRPD
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The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UN CRPD) is an international human rights treaty adopted in 2006 that reaffirms that all persons with disabilities must enjoy all human rights and fundamental freedoms.
It clarifies that all persons with disabilities have the right to participate in civil, political, economic, social and cultural life of the community.
The UN CRPD provides for the establishment of a national mechanism for independent and transparent monitoring of the country obligations under the Convention which must have a broad mandate to promote, protect and monitor the implementation of the rights protected under the Convention. The continuous monitoring by this body of the national human rights situation is an incentive for the government to take seriously the obligations undertaken when ratifying the Convention and show genuine progress in fulfilling them.
The European Union set up the EU monitoring Framework to monitor the UN CRPD. EDF is a full member, together with the European Ombudsman, the European Agency of Fundamental Rights and the European Parliament. The European Commission withdrew itself from the Framework, following the recommendation in the Concluding Observations of the UN CRPD Committee to the EU.
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Below you will find the ways in which out member organisations campaign for the implementation of the UN CRPD. The links will open in a new window.
Lists of Issues (LOIs) are issues reported to country governments by the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Our members produce their own reports, and/or answers to LOIs.
Human Rights Coordinator
Contact: ansofie.leenknecht@edf-feph.org
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