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UN adopts disability convention (BBC)

By Geoff Adams-Spink
Age & disability correspondent, BBC News website

The United Nations General Assembly has unanimously adopted a treaty on the rights of disabled people.

The text of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities was agreed by a UN committee in August.

Countries that ratify it will have to introduce laws ensuring that disabled people are treated fairly.

The treaty will enter into force once it has been ratified by 20 countries. It is thought that the world's disabled population is 650m.

It will now be up to the 192 member states of the UN to ratify it and to begin putting it into practice.
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more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/6173073.stm

Thanks to the Beeb for keeping us in touch with (the rest of?) civilization.

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