Convención de las Naciones Unidas Sobre los Derechos de las Personas con Discapacidad (CPDP)

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La Convención de las Naciones Unidas sobre los Derechos de las Personas con Discapacidad y su Protocolo Facultativo (A/RES/61/106) se aprobó el 13 de diciembre de 2006 en la Sede de las Naciones Unidas en Nueva York y se abrió a la firma el 30 de marzo de 2007. Actualmente hay 174 ratificaciones a la CDPD y 92 ratificaciones a su Protocolo Opcional.

La CDPD es un tratado internacional histórico. Es una convención integral de derechos humanos y una herramienta de desarrollo internacional, y está en el corazón del movimiento por los derechos de las personas con discapacidad.

The CRPD Committee

The Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) is the body of independent experts which monitors implementation of the Convention by the States Parties.

All States parties are obliged to submit regular reports to the Committee on how the rights are being implemented. States must report initially within two years of accepting the Convention and thereafter every four years. The Committee examines each report and shall make such suggestions and general recommendations on the report as it may consider appropriate and shall forward these to the State Party concerned.

Download the Calendar for CRPD Committee Sessions (2018-2019)

Compilation of the CRPD Committee’s Concluding Observations

The IDA Secretariat has been compiling the CRPD Committee’s Concluding Observations. The compilation is organised by Article (of the CRPD) and by...

CRPD Committee's Views on Individual Communications under the Optional Protocol

CRPD Committee's views on Individual Communications lodged under the Optional Protocol

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The human rights treaty bodies are committees of independent experts that monitor implementation of the core international human rights treaties. They are created in accordance with the provisions of the treaty that they monitor.

Download the calendar Treaty Body reviews (2018-2019)

IDA's work

CRPD advocacy

CRPD Committee members and High Commissioner Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein

The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) is...

DPOs and the CRPD

Guatemalan DPO representatives in Geneva

The CRPD presents multiple opportunities for organisations of persons with disabilities to engage in advocacy at all...

Key resources

Understanding the UN CRPD

Coverpage of the 'Understanding the UN CRPD' Handbook

A Handbook on the Human Rights of Persons with Disabilities, July 2010

The purpose of this manual is to explain the Convention...

Position Paper on the CRPD and Other Instruments

The International Disability Alliance upholds the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities as the universal standard for the human rights...

CRPD-related Events

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