Convention on the Rights of Persons With Disabilities
- Opinion by Vera Dimoplon
- • March 12, 2021
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While recently attending a virtual tour of the United Nations Office at Vienna, I was astonished to learn that the translation services did not include sign language interpreters. There are six official UN languages — Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian…
- Categories: Disabilities, OPINIONS, SDGs
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- Gertrude Oforiwa Fefoame
- • June 15, 2018
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When I was growing up in Ghana, if someone had told me that one day I would hear my name announced as a member of a United Nations treaty body, I would hardly have believed it. But this is…
- Categories: Disabilities, Women
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- Opinion by Dulcie Leimbach
- • November 7, 2016
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Our daughter, Isabella, is slowly losing her sight. I don’t say this with ease or fear but conditionally, as her vision can be fully restored, her doctor has reassured us, as he ups her medications and we wait for…
- Categories: Disabilities, OPINIONS
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- Opinion by Tino Calabia
- • December 18, 2013
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The seventh anniversary of the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of Persons With Disabilities at United Nations headquarters in New York was commemorated on Dec. 13. Since March 2007, when it opened for signature, the convention has been…
- Categories: OPINIONS
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- Barbara Crossette
- • December 13, 2012
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In blocking adoption by the United States of a global convention to protect the disabled, the Republican right signaled on Dec. 4 that it intends to stall or kill all international treaties sent to the Senate for ratification by…
- Categories: Human Rights, US-UN Relations
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