Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

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The CRPD at 20: The revolution of the ordinary:

“The CRPD can be understood as more than a treaty about disability or a framework for regulating society’s response to human difference. It is a treaty about how we understand ourselves. It asks what kind of human being society had in mind when it built its schools, courts, homes, transport systems, workplaces, families, and communities. It asks whether the world was designed only for those who can walk, see, hear, speak, learn, decide, work and communicate in expected ways, or whether it can be transformed to welcome the full diversity of humanity.” (Jun, José María Viera / IDA)

Reflections on the CRPD at 20: Laws Matter — But People Make Change. Achievements to celebrate of the CRPD:

“Governments, who have championed legal and policy reforms aligned with the CRPD. Public officials and institutions who have developed implementation plans and allocated budgets to support them. UN agencies and multilateral development banks who have adopted strategies and accountability frameworks. Development and humanitarian actors who have increasingly centred and invested in disability equity within their portfolios.” (May, CBM Global)