CRPD and its Optional Protocol
Ratifications CRPD and CRPD-OP
CRPD General Comment No. 1 (on Art 12)
CRPD Guidelines on Deinstitutionalization
CRPD General Comment No. 3 (on Art 6)
CRPD General Comment No. 5 (on Art 19)
CRPD General Comment No. 6 (on Art 5)
Compilation of CRPD Concluding Observations by IDA
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UN Enable website (Dept of Economic and Social Affairs), history and activities related to CRPD
Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
OHCHR Human Rights of Persons with Disabilities (Reports by OHCHR disability adviser, and more)
Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
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CRPD negotiation archives (links to each session with all related materials; note not all WNUSP submissions are included due to changes in process over time and some errors)
- Report of Mexico Expert Meeting (includes ‘Which rights should the Convention recognize?’, which was written by NGO experts synthesizing input including WNUSP paper)
- Decision on NGO participation, 2nd session Ad Hoc Committee
- Working Group Jan 2004
- Contributions going into Working Group (includes WNUSP proposals)
- Compilation of proposals (includes some material not linked in the main page) (includes WNUSP proposals)
- Daily summary of discussions, 3rd session Ad Hoc Committee
- NGO contributions (not complete), includes WNUSP material for 3rd and 4th sessions)
- Daily summary of discussions, 4th session Ad Hoc Committee
- Revisions and amendments, 5th session Ad Hoc Committee (includes NGO comments, WNUSP input is through International Disability Caucus)
- Daily summary of discussions, 5th session Ad Hoc Committee
- Revisions and amendments, 6th session Ad Hoc Committee (includes NGO comments, WNUSP input is through International Disability Caucus)
- 6th session documents (includes OHCHR background paper on legal capacity)
- Daily summary of discussions, 6th session Ad Hoc Committee
- Revisions and amendments, 7th session Ad Hoc Committee (includes NGO comments, WNUSP input is through International Disability Caucus)
- Daily summary of discussions, 7th session Ad Hoc Committee
- Revisions and amendments, 8th session Ad Hoc Committee (includes NGO comments, WNUSP input is through International Disability Caucus)
- 8th session Ad Hoc Committee (includes ‘Drafting Group’ which met intersessionally to address non-substantive issues and also resulted in removal of detrimental footnote)
- Timeline of events (includes video and text of statements made at adoption of CRPD by General Assembly, including statement by IDC reflecting WNUSP input, one of two IDC representatives)
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CHRUSP (see mainly Resources and More Resources pages)
Minkowitz author page SSRN (links to articles)
Minkowitz page on academia.edu (independent) and alternate page (UIO) (links to articles)
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