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.

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.		  
 
For more information on the UN Convention please visit:
www.un.org/disabilities
 
 
Petition on the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

Dear Prime Minister of Pakistan,

We the undersigned would like to strongly request you to make Pakistan a signatory to THE CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES, and to ratify it. The Convention was adopted on 13 December 2006 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, and was opened for signature on 30 March 2007. At present there are over 119 signatories to the Convention.

We, the children and young people of Pakistan feel very strongly that as a country it is critical that we “promote, protect and ensure the full and equal enjoyment of all human rights by persons with disabilities”. Through becoming a signatory to the Convention, and by ratifying it, we hope Pakistan will join other countries of the world in making a positive commitment to: “Respect the rights of persons with disabilities, protect the rights of persons with disabilities and fulfil the rights of persons with disabilities”.
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