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Initiative Promoting CRPD Launched in Philippines
By Andrea Shettle, MSW | March 3, 2008
A disability organization, Katipunan ng Maykapansanan sa Pilipinas, Inc.(KAMPI), launched a new initiative in late January that promotes ratifying and implementing the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) in the Philippines. The initiative has been dubbed “Ang Maykapansanan: Karapatan at Kinabukasan” (Our Rights, Our Future).
Once the CRPD enters full legal force, it will become the first legally-binding, international treaty to protect the human rights of disabled people. Other international human rights instruments either do not address disabled people, or are not legally binding, or both.
KAMPI is a member of Disabled People International (DPI), a global federation of national organizations of people with disabilities in 142 countries and territories. DPI, a cross-disability organization, has been heavily involved in promoting the CRPD. Among other things, DPI has created a ratification toolkit and also an implementation toolkit, both targeted at grassroots disability advocates who want to persuade their governments to sign, ratify, and implement the CRPD.
Read more about the KAMPI initiative in the Philippines at
http://v1.dpi.org/lang-en/resources/details?page=901
Also learn more about the CRPD and global efforts by reading the RatifyNow FAQ or by exploring the many other materials provided at, or linked from, RatifyNow.
This article is cross-posted, with minor modifications, at both We Can Do and RatifyNow.org with permission of author.
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March 3rd, 2008 at 7:21 pm
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