UN Convention of 13 December 2006 on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

Texts. Text of the Convention – Translations – Optional Protocol – Guiding Principles

Status. Contracting parties– Committee’s Rules of Procedure

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD Committee)

• General Comments.

1. CRPD Committee, General comment No. 1 (2014), Article 12: Equal recognition before the law, 19 May 2014, CRPD/C/GC/1
2. CRPD Committee, General comment No. 6 (2018) on equality and non-discrimination, 26 April 2018, CRPD/C/GC/6

• Case law.

1. CRPD Committee, Marakova v. Lithuania (Comm. No. 30/2015), CRPD/C/18/D/30/2015, views of 5 October 2017

• Other relevant documents.

1. CRPD Committee, Consideration of reports submitted by States parties under article 35 of the Convention. Initial report of States: European Union, 3 December 2014, CRPD/C/EU/1. – other reports submitted by Member States available here;
2. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Annual Report, Right to access to justice under article 13 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 27 December 2017, A/HRC/37/25;
3. CRPD Committee, Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General on Disability and Accessibility, International Principles and Guidelines on Access to Justice for Persons with Disabilities, Geneva, 2020;
4. Open ended Working Group on Ageing for the purpose of strengthening the protection of the human rights of older persons;
5. S. E. Rolland and A. Ruck Keene, Study commissioned by the Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities, Interpreting the 2000 Hague Convention on the International Protection of Adults Consistently with the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 3 June 2021;
6. Joint statement by the Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities, Gerard Quinn, and the Independent Expert on the enjoyment of all human rights by older persons, Claudia Mahler, Toward Greater Coherence of International Law: Reflections on the Hague Convention (2000) on the International Protection of Adults, 8 July 2021.