Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

The Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) is the body of independent experts which monitors implementation of the Convention by the States Parties.

All States parties are obliged to submit regular reports to the Committee on how the rights are being implemented. States must report initially within two years of accepting the Convention and thereafter every four years. The Committee examines each report and shall make such suggestions and general recommendations on the report as it may consider appropriate and shall forward these to the State Party concerned.

The Optional Protocol to the Convention gives the Committee competence to examine individual complaints with regard to alleged violations of the Convention by States parties to the Protocol.

The Committee shall meet in Geneva and normally hold two sessions per year.

From Exclusion to Equality
Realizing the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 

The Handbook was jointly prepared by the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN-DESA), the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU)

Release date: October, 2007
English

FORTHCOMING EVENTS

• NEW: International Day of Persons with Disabilities: Program of Activities of the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 3 -9 December 2009  
• 2nd session of the Committee to be convened at Geneva from 19 to 23 October 2009
• 2nd session of the Conference of States Parties 2-4 September 2009
• Day of General Discussion on “Article 12 of the CRPD – The right to equal recognition before the law” - 21 October 2009

RECENT EVENTS AND DEVELOPMENTS

• Pre-session working groups meeting, 24-26 June 2009
  Agenda (MS Word)
  Programme of work (MS Word)
• 1st session of the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 23-27 February 2009
• 1st Conference of States Parties , 31 October and 3 November 2008 in New York 
• Election results (MS Word) (HTML Version)
• Practical information about the Committee (MS Word) (HTML Version)

RECENT RATIFICATIONS

• Status of Ratification of the Convention
• Status of ratification of the Optional Protocol