Statements, declarations and observations

2024

Statement

• CRPD Statement on Persons with Disabilities affected by disasters
  10 September 2024
• Summit of the Future and outcome documents: CRPD Committee Statement
  10 September 2024
• CRPD Statement on Role of local authorities in the implementation of deinstitutionalization policies and strategies 
  21 June 2024
• CRPD Statement on Achieving real gender balance and equitable geographical representation in the 2024 elections of members of the Committee
  8 March 2024

2023

Statement

• CRPD Statement on situation of persons with disabilities in the armed conflict in Israel and Gaza
  20 October 2023
• Statement on Social Protection of Persons with Disabilities in Situations of Risk and Emergencies, in the framework of the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
  8 September 2023
• Statement on deinstitutionalization
  18 August 2023

2022

Joint statement

• Chapter on the situation of persons with disabilities in Ukraine and in countries where they have fled after 24 February 2022, as a result of the aggression against Ukraine by the Russian Federation
  9 September 2022
• Joint statement on the situation of persons with disabilities affected by flooding in Pakistan (issued by the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction)
  9 September 2022
• During its 89th session and 26th session respectively, the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) adopted a Joint Statement on the Rights of Children with Disabilities (Word)
  23 August 2021

2021

Statement

• Statement by the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (Word)
  23 August 2021

Open letter

• Open letter on Draft Additional Protocol to the Oviedo Convention (Word)
  June 2021

2020

Statements

• International Day of Persons with Disabilities: Building back better: People with disabilities have vital role
  1 December 2020
• Joint statement by UN Women, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women and the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on ending sexual harassment against women and girls with disabilities (Word)
  22 October 2020
• World Mental Health Day
  10 October 2020
• COVID-19 and the human rights of persons with disabilities
  Statement by the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
  9 June 2020

Joint statement

• COVID-19 and the human rights of persons with disabilities
  Statement by the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
  9 June 2020
• Persons with Disabilities and COVID-19 (Word)
  Joint Statement by the Chair of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, on behalf of the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Special Envoy of the United Nations Secretary-General on Disability and Accessibility
  1 April 2020

2018

Joint statements

• Guaranteeing sexual and reproductive health and rights for all women, in particular women with disabilities (Word)
  Joint statement by the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
  29 August 2018

Statements

• Statement by the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities calling States parties to oppose the draft Additional Protocol to the Oviedo Convention
  20th session (27 August - 21 September 2018)
  Word: English | Français
• International Day of Sign Languages (Word)
  19th session (14 February - 9 March 2018)
• Inclusion and full participation of persons with disabilities and their representative organizations in the implementation of the convention (Word)
  19th session (14 February - 9 March 2018)

Declaration

• Joint Declaration by the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions (Word)
  19th session (14 February - 9 March 2018)

2017

Statements

• Achieving gender balance and equitable geographical distribution in the elections of members of the Committee (Word)
  17th session (20 March to 12 April 2017)
• Situation of persons with disabilities affected by disasters in Peru, Ecuador and Colombia (Word)
  17th session (20 March to 12 April 2017)

Joint statement

• Addressing disabilities in large-scale movements of refugees and migrants (Word)
  Joint statement by the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families (CMW)

2016

Statement

• FOR A BETTER URBAN FUTURE-Securing inclusion of persons with disabilities in the New Urban Agenda-Habitat III-Third United Nations conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Word)
  May 2016

2015

Statement

• Statement on disability inclusion for the World Humanitarian Summit (Word)
  14th Session (17 August-4 September 2015)

2014

Joint statement

• International Day of Persons with Disabilities
  Joint Statement by Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities, Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Special Envoy of the Secretary-General on Disability and Accessibility
  3 December 2014

Statements

• Statement on Disability inclusion in the Third World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction and beyond
  September 2014
• Statement on Sustainable Development Goals
  Addressed to the Eighth session of the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals (Word)
  January 2014

2013

Statement

• Including the rights of persons with disabilities in the post 2015 agenda on disability and development" (Word)
  May 2013

Observation

• Revision of the Standard Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners Accessible" (Word)
  20 November 2013