MDRI Urges Bush Administration to Sign UN Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities
February 14, 2007
WASHINGTON, DC
Mental Disability Rights International (MDRI) this week urged the Bush Administration to sign the UN Disability Convention and join a long list of nations who support the Convention.
In a letter addressed to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, MDRI Executive Director Eric Rosenthal commended the United States for being one of the first countries in the world to adopt comprehensive legal protections for people with disabilities and stated that the US should be among the first to sign the Convention.
Support for the UN Disability Rights Convention is urgently needed, the letter explains, to "address one of the most pervasive, yet unknown, patterns of human rights violations in the world today.”
“By signing the UN Disability Rights Convention, the United States will demonstrate its commitment to the recognition and enforcement of the rights of people with disabilities. By joining the list of nations that support the Convention, we will put countries on notice that they can and will be held accountable for the violations of the human rights of people with disabilities,” said Rosenthal.
The Convention will be open for signature on March 30 and it is expected that most countries of the world will sign.
Since 1993, MDRI has documented human rights abuses against people with disabilities in 23 countries around the world. For more information visit www.mdri.org.
2007-02-16 00:00:00
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