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The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its Optional Protocol was adopted on 13 December 2006 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, and was opened for signature on 30 March 2007. It marks a “paradigm shift” in attitudes and approaches to persons with disabilities. |
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The Convention is intended as a human rights instrument with an explicit, social development dimension. It adopts a broad categorization of persons with disabilities and reaffirms that all persons with all types of disabilities must enjoy all human rights and fundamental freedoms. It clarifies and qualifies how all categories of rights apply to persons with disabilities and identifies areas where adaptations have to be made for persons with disabilities to effectively exercise their rights and areas where their rights have been violated, and where protection of rights must be reinforced. |
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| For more information on the UN Convention please visit: |
| www.un.org/disabilities |
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| PLEASE SIGN THIS PETITION |
Dear Prime Minister of Pakistan,
We would like to thank you and the Government of Pakistan for signing the UN Convention for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on 25th September 2008. We are inspired by this step taken by our government towards our collective goal to “promote, protect and ensure the full and equal enjoyment of all human rights by persons with disabilities”. |
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We believe the next step in this cause should be to ratify and implement this Convention so that we can start giving persons with disabilities in Pakistan the respect and opportunities they deserve to live a full life. We urge you to speed up the process and hope Pakistan will ratify this Convention soon. |
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