Persons with disabilities must enjoy full human rights and fundamental freedoms and enabling them to do so benefits society as a whole,

Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro said today at the opening of a United Nations forum that is seeking to improve their lives.
“You and I and millions of others know, that when we respect the inherent dignity of persons with disabilities, we enrich our human family,” she stated in her remarks to the fourth session of the Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
The conference, which runs through Friday, brings together over 500 participants around the overall theme of “Enabling development: realizing the rights of persons with disabilities.”
There are 103 States that are party to the Convention, which was adopted by the General Assembly in 2006 in an effort to ensure that persons with disabilities enjoy the same human rights as everyone else. (...)

The article:
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=39474&Cr=disabilities&Cr1=

More about:
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=39465&Cr=disabilities&Cr1=

http://www.un.org/News/briefings/docs/2011/110906_Disabilities.doc.htm

International Documents about:
http://www.hrea.org/index.php?base_id=103&language_id=1&category_type=2&category_id=699

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Workshop internazionale su "L'impegno del sistema Italia sull'art.32 della Convenzione ONU sui diritti delle persone con disabilità":

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