BBC ONLINE: UN Disability Treaty
At-a-glance: UN disability treaty
The UN is expected to agree a new treaty giving greater rights to disabled people around the world.
Here is an at-a-glance guide to the draft United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities:
- Participating countries to change laws and ban discriminatory customs and practices
- Disabled people to have an equal right to life
- Equal rights for disabled women and girls
- Protection for children with disabilities
- A right to own and inherit property, to control financial affairs and have equal access to financial services
- Disabled people not to be deprived of their liberty "unlawfully or arbitrarily"
- Medical or scientific experiments without consent to be banned
- An end to enforced institutionalisation
- Freedom from exploitation, violence and abuse
- A right to privacy and access to medical records
- Countries to remove barriers to accessing the environment, transport, public facilities and communication
- A right to independent living
- Essential equipment to be made affordable
- A right to an adequate standard of living and social protection
- An end to discrimination relating to marriage, family and personal relationships
- Equal access to education
- An end to discrimination in the job market
- A right to equal participation in public life
- A right to participate in cultural life
- Developing countries to be assisted to put the convention into practice
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