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: FSU College of Law Library BlogUN Opens Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities for Signature
By mdell
The United Nations opened the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on March 30, 2007. The Convention is the first new human rights instrument of the 21st century. See the video of the press conference here: http://webcast.un.org/ramgen/pressconference/pc070330.rm
?What the Convention endeavours to do," said Don MacKay, Chairman of the committee that negotiated the treaty, "is to elaborate in detail the rights of persons with disabilities and set out a code of implementation?. Excerpt from The Convention in Brief on the Covention website: http://www.un.org/disabilities/convention/convention.shtml
News story reported at the Jurist website: http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/index.php?edition=full
Posted by Marin Dell
Full post as published by FSU College of Law Library Blog on April 26, 2007 (boomark / email).
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