The UN General Assembly’s Ad Hoc Committee on a Comprehensive and Integral Convention to Promote and Protect the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities is meeting to work on this historic document.
The document is comprehensive and
under draft article 20, States are to take measures to ensure liberty of movement with the greatest possible independence for persons with disabilities, including by facilitating access to mobility aids, devices, assistive technologies and forms of live assistance and intermediaries. States should promote universal design, as well as research, development and production, for mobility aids, devices and assistive technologies; and provide training in mobility skills to persons with disabilities and to specialist staff working with them.
The draft text of the convention is at http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/enable/rights/ahcwgreportax1.htm. For information, contact Edoardo Bellando, United Nations Department of Public Information, tel.: ( 212 ) 963-8275, e-mail: bellando@un.org.
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Further Reading:
Comprehensive and integral international convention
http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/enable/rights/adhoccom.htm
http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/enable/ecn52004l5.htm