Human rights

Disability has more and more developed into a human rights issue. At the two sessions of the UN Commission on Human Rights, in 1998 and in 2000, the Special Rapporteur has addressed the Commission concerning disability as a human rights issue. The Commission responded by adopting two important resolutions (1998/31 and 2000/51) in which disability is recognized as a human rights concern for the United Nations system.

An important event in the area of human rights and disability took place in Stockholm in November 2000, when the Special Rapporteur invited 27 experts in this area to a seminar with the purpose to draft guidelines for identifying and reporting human rights violations and abuse against disabled persons. The report of the seminar is entitled "Let the world know".

Documents

2002 - Statement by the Special Rapporteur

PDF (22 kb) Word (52 kb)

2002 - Draft resolution

PDF (31 kb) Word (210 kb)

Let the world know" – report from the Almåsa seminar, November 2000

PDF (276 kb) Word 97 (572 kb)

Article on human rights and disability – built on the report from Almåsa 2000

PDF (93 kb) Word 97 (187 kb)

2000 – Adress by the Special Rapporteur

PDF (11 kb) Word 97 (39 kb)

2000/51 – Resolution adopted by the Commission - Adress by the Special Rapporteur

PDF (15 kb) Word 97 (47 kb)

1998 - Adress by the Special Rapporteur

PDF (17 kb) Word 97 (58 kb)

1998/31 – Resolution adopted by the Commission

PDF (10 kb) Word 97 (45 kb)