UNITED NATIONS WEBSITES RELATED TO THE CRPD
- COMMITTEE ON THE RIGHTS OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES
- UN ENABLE
This website includes a section on the Inter Agency Support Group to the CRPD.
- OHCHR-Disability
UN SPECIALISED AGENCIES, PROGRAMMES AND FUNDS
- UNESCO Flagship on Inclusive Education
- UNAIDS
- World Health Organization – Disabilities
- Women Watch (part of the UN Inter-Agency Network on Women and Gender Equality)
- The World Bank and Disability
- FAO Database on the Rural Disabled
- International Labour Organization (ILO) Skills and Employability Department (Inclusion of Persons With Disabilities)
- World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
- International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
WEBSITE OF UN TREATY BODIES RELATED TO PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES
- Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: General Comment No. 5 on Persons with Disabilities
- Committee on the Rights of the Child: General Comment No. 9 on the Rights of Children with Disabilities
UN SPECIAL PROCEDURES WITH REFERENCES TO PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES
- Report of UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (2008)
- Report of the Special Rapporteur on Education on Inclusive Education (2007)
MAINSTREAM HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANISATIONS
- IWRAW Asia Pacific (International Women’s Rights Action Watch (Asia Pacific))
- ISHR (International Service for Human Rights)
- NGO Group for the Convention on the Rights of the Child
- CRIN (Child Rights Information Network)
- CCPR (Centre for Civil and Political Rights)
- ESCR-net (ESCR-net)
LINKS TO NATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS INSTITUTIONS WITH SPECIFIC SECTIONS ON PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES
- National Human Rights Institutions Forum
AFRICA
- Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice, Ghana
AMERICAS
- Canadian Human Rights Commission
- Defensoria de los Habitantes, Costa Rica
- Procurador de los Derechos Humanos, Guatemala
- Defensoria del Pueblo de la Republica de Panama
- Defensoria del Pueblo de Perú
EUROPE
- Austrian Monitoring Committee (to implement the CRPD)
- Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (NIHRC)
- The Swedish Disability Ombudsman
- The German Institute for Human Rights
ASIA PACIFIC
- Equal Opportunities Commission, Hong Kong SAR, China
- Human Rights Commission, New Zealand
DPOS AND NGOS
- Center for the Human Rights of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry (CHRUSP)
- Handicap International
- Survivor Corps
- Asia Pacific Disability Forum (APDF)
- Secretariat of African Decade
- International Disability and Development Consortium (IDDC)
- Global Parnership for Disability and Development (GPDD)
- Fundación ONCE
- Disability Rights Fund (DRF)
- Disability Rights Promotion International (DRPI)
Links
UNITED NATIONS WEBSITES RELATED TO THE CRPD
- COMMITTEE ON THE RIGHTS OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES
- UN ENABLE
This website includes a section on the Inter Agency Support Group to the CRPD.
- OHCHR-Disability
UN SPECIALISED AGENCIES, PROGRAMMES AND FUNDS
- UNESCO Flagship on Inclusive Education
- UNAIDS
- World Health Organization – Disabilities
- Women Watch (part of the UN Inter-Agency Network on Women and Gender Equality)
- The World Bank and Disability
- FAO Database on the Rural Disabled
- International Labour Organization (ILO) Skills and Employability Department (Inclusion of Persons With Disabilities)
- World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
- International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
WEBSITE OF UN TREATY BODIES RELATED TO PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES
- Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: General Comment No. 5 on Persons with Disabilities
- Committee on the Rights of the Child: General Comment No. 9 on the Rights of Children with Disabilities
UN SPECIAL PROCEDURES WITH REFERENCES TO PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES
- Report of UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (2008)
- Report of the Special Rapporteur on Education on Inclusive Education (2007)
MAINSTREAM HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANISATIONS
- IWRAW Asia Pacific (International Women’s Rights Action Watch (Asia Pacific))
- ISHR (International Service for Human Rights)
- NGO Group for the Convention on the Rights of the Child
- CRIN (Child Rights Information Network)
- CCPR (Centre for Civil and Political Rights)
- ESCR-net (ESCR-net)
LINKS TO NATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS INSTITUTIONS WITH SPECIFIC SECTIONS ON PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES
- National Human Rights Institutions Forum
AFRICA
- Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice, Ghana
AMERICAS
- Canadian Human Rights Commission
- Defensoria de los Habitantes, Costa Rica
- Procurador de los Derechos Humanos, Guatemala
- Defensoria del Pueblo de la Republica de Panama
- Defensoria del Pueblo de Perú
EUROPE
- Austrian Monitoring Committee (to implement the CRPD)
- Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (NIHRC)
- The Swedish Disability Ombudsman
- The German Institute for Human Rights
ASIA PACIFIC
- Equal Opportunities Commission, Hong Kong SAR, China
- Human Rights Commission, New Zealand
DPOS AND NGOS
- Center for the Human Rights of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry (CHRUSP)
- Handicap International
- Survivor Corps
- Asia Pacific Disability Forum (APDF)
- Secretariat of African Decade
- International Disability and Development Consortium (IDDC)
- Global Parnership for Disability and Development (GPDD)
- Fundación ONCE
- Disability Rights Fund (DRF)
- Disability Rights Promotion International (DRPI)