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New Zealand Organizations to Use Award for Promoting CRPD
By Andrea Shettle, MSW | April 29, 2008
Three organizations in New Zealand are sharing a $50,000 award that they will use to help promote the new international disability rights treaty, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), "Scoop" International News has reported.
The country of New Zealand has received the Franklin Delano Roosevelt International Disability Award in recognition of its role in helping to write the UN CRPD, which is the first international, legally binding human rights instrument to protect the rights of people with disabilities. The award is being shared among organizations CCS Disability Action, Disabled Persons Assembly (DPA), and People First.
Countries that ratify the CRPD will be legally obligated to abolish discriminatory legislation and create new laws, as needed, to protect a wide range of human rights for people with disabilities. As a few examples, the CRPD protects the right to liberty; the right to participate in political and cultural life; and the right to work and employment. To date, 24 countries have ratified the CRPD. Among these, 14 countries have also ratified the Optional Protocol, which gives people with disabilities in these countries the right to pursue redress at the international level. The CRPD will enter into force on May 3.
Read more about the New Zealand award by following these two links to two related "Scoop" stories:
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE0804/S00037.htm
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0804/S00129.htm
Learn more about the CRPD in general by taking a few minutes to read the RatifyNow FAQ.
Read about the upcoming May 12 celebration of the CRPD entry into force. And come back to the RatifyNow.org website to learn about more upcoming events related to the entry into force of the CRPD.
The links to the "Scoop" news articles were still functioning at the time of this writing, April 29, 2008. However, RatifyNow.org readers should please note that news outlets vary widely in how long they allow their articles to be read by the public. We cannot guarantee that all links will continue to work in the long term.
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