Resources and Publications
This page details some resources and publications related to DRPI's initiatives and other disability rights promotion initiatives.
DRPI Publications
About DRPI
- Interactive webinar on the DRPI project (Posted: October 28, 2009)
- DRPI's Brochure (Posted: October 8, 2008)
- Moving Forward - DRPI Progress Report (Posted: June 28, 2007)
- 'Minding the Gap' Podcast (Posted: March 26, 2007)
- DRPI Phase 1 Report: Opportunities, Methodologies and Training Resources for Disability Rights Monitoring (Posted: September 20, 2005)
- Monitoring Human Rights - A Tool For Change (Posted: September 25, 2004)
Country Reports
- Inicijalni Izveštaj O Primeni Konvencije O Pravima Osoba Sa Invaliditetom (Posted: July 1, 2014)
- Monitoring of Human Rights of Persons With Disabilities: A Comprehensive Analysis of Compliance and Breach of Fundamental Rights in Honduras (Posted: February 4, 2014)
- Alternative Report on the Implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (Posted: January 13, 2014)
- Initial Report on the Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (Posted: November 5, 2013)
- Article 33: Disability Rights in Aotearoa New Zealand - Media Report (Posted: September 4, 2013)
- Monitoring the Human Rights of People with Disabilities in Canada - St. John's Monitoring Site Report (Posted: January 16, 2013)
- Media Analysis Report 2013: Stories Have Consequences (Posted: August 31, 2012)
- Monitoring the Human Rights of People with Disabilities in Canada - Vancouver Monitoring Site Report (Posted: July 4, 2012)
- La vigie de l'exercice des droits humains des personnes ayant des incapacités de la région de Québec (Posted: May 17, 2012)
- Monitoring the Human Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Laws, Policies and Programs in New Zealand (Posted: May 1, 2012)
- Monitoring the Human Rights of People with Disabilities in the Quebec City Area - Summary Report (Posted: March 1, 2012)
- Disability Rights in Aotearoa New Zealand (Posted: January 25, 2012)
- Monitoring the Human Rights of People with Disabilities - Philippines Country Report (Posted: November 30, 2009)
- Monitoring the Human Rights of People with Disabilities in India (Posted: November 24, 2009)
- Monitoring the Human Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Bolivia (Posted: November 20, 2009)
- Monitoring the Human Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Laws, Policies and Programs in India (Posted: May 21, 2009)
- Monitoring the Human Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Laws, Policies and Programs in the Philippines (Posted: May 21, 2009)
- Etude Sur Les Droits des Personnes Handicappees au Cameroun (Posted: April 2, 2009)
- Study on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Cameroon (Posted: March 30, 2009)
- State of Disabled People's Rights in Kenya, 2007 (Posted: December 15, 2007)
DRPI in the News
- Handi-Link interview with Marcia Rioux about DRPI on CJAM Radio (Posted: April 17, 2011)
- New Project Promotes Human Rights Approach to Disability (Posted: September 30, 2004)
- INTERIGHTS Bulletin on Human Rights and Disability (Posted: July 15, 2004)
- Human Rights and Disability - Article in Amnesty International's 'The Wire' (Posted: July 30, 2003)
Training Resources
- A Welcome Message from DRPI Co-Director Bengt Lindqvist (Posted: May 14, 2013)
- DRPI Regional Training Manual - A Guide to Disability Rights Monitoring (Posted: June 2, 2012)
- DRPI National Law and Policy Monitoring Template (Posted: April 30, 2012)
- Guide de formation sure le pacte international relatif aux droits économiques, sociaux et culturels (PIDESC) (Posted: June 18, 2010)
- Training Guide on International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) (Posted: June 11, 2010)
- Using DRPI's Tools to Monitor the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (Posted: May 31, 2010)
UN Submissions
- UN Human Rights Council - Universal Periodic Review of Kenya (Posted: December 3, 2009)
- UN Commission on the Status of Women – Beijing +15 Global Review (Posted: March 12, 2009)
The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
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. There were 82 signatories to the Convention, 44 signatories to the Optional Protocol, and 1 ratification of the Convention. This is the highest number of signatories in history to a UN Convention on its opening day. It is the first comprehensive human rights treaty of the 21st century and is the first human rights convention to be open for signature by regional integration organizations. The Convention entered into force on May 3, 2008.
- Access the Full text of the CRPD and its optional protocol from the UN Enable site.
- Access the list of countries that have ratified the CRPD and its optional protocol.
- Access alternative formats of the CRPD and its optional protocol.
Disability and Human Rights Links
Disability Rights Organizations and Links
- Canadian Journal of Disability Studies.
- Center for the Human Rights of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry.
- Disability and Society.
- Disability Awareness in Action.
- Disability Law Lowdown (podcasts on Americans with Disabilities Act)
- Disability Rights International.
- Disabled Peoples' International.
- ESCAP Decade for Disabled Persons.
- European Disability Forum (EDF)
- Global Applied Disability Research and Information Network (GLADNET)
- Handicap International.
- Include Everybody – Disability and the MDGs.
- Inclusion International.
- Inter-American Institute on Disability.
- International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual Disabilities.
- International Disability Alliance.
- International Disability and Development Consortium.
- International Federation of Hard of Hearing People (IFHOH)
- ILO Equity Issues Group, Disability and Work.
- Mental Disability Rights International.
- Mind Freedom International (MFI)
- Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights - Human Rights and Disability.
- Ratify Now – Campaign for Ratification of CRPD.
- Red Latinoamericana de Organizaciones no Gubermentales de Personas con Discapacidaed y sus familias (RIADIS)
- Rehabilitation International.
- Secretariat of the Africa Decade of Persons with Disabilities.
- Survivor Corp.
- The World Bank and Disability.
- UN Enable (Division for Social Policy and Development: Focal Point on Disability)
- UN Policy on Web Accessibility.
- World Blind Union.
- World Deaf Information Resource Project.
- World Federation of the Deaf (WFD)
- World Federation of the Deafblind.
- World Health Organization Disability and Rehabilitation Team.
- World Health Organization's Mental Health Improvements for Nations Development (MIND) project.
- World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry.
- World Wide Web Consortium's Web Accessibility Initiative.
Human Rights Organizations and Links
- Amnesty International.
- Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions.
- European Union – For Diversity, Against Discrimination.
- FORUM-ASIA.
- Human Rights Watch.
- Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa.
- International Center for Human Rights and Democratic Development.
- INTERIGHTS.
- Minority Rights Group International.
- Office of the United Nations High Commissioner of Human Rights.
Disability Law Links
- A Guide to Disability Rights Laws.
- Academic Network of European Disability Experts.
- Access to Justice for Persons with Communication Disabilities (ACCPC)
- Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Alliance (AODA)
- Advocacy Centre for the Elderly (ACE)
- Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
- Alberta Human Rights Commission.
- ARCH Disability Law Centre.
- Arch-online.
- Bazelon Centre for Mental Health Law.
- British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal.
- Canadian HIV / AIDS Legal Network.
- Canadian Human Rights Commission.
- Canadian Human Rights Tribunal.
- CanLII.
- Centre for Disability Law and Policy (CDLP)
- Commission on Mental and Physical Disability Law.
- DBTAC Southwest ADA Centre.
- Disability India Network.
- Disability Law 2.0.
- Disability Law and Policy e-Newsletter.
- Disability Law e-journal.
- Disability Law Lowdown.
- Disability Law News Blog.
- Disability Law Service.
- Disability Rights Advocates (DRA)
- Disability Rights Education and Defence Fund (DREDF)
- Disability Rights Fund.
- Disability Rights in Canada: a Virtual Museum.
- Law, Health Policy and Disability Center.
- Legal Frontiers.
- Global Disability Rights Library.
- Guide to Australian HIV Laws and Policies for Healthcare Professionals.
- Harvard Law School Project on Disability.
- Human Rights Tribunal Ontario.
- IDEAnet.
- International and Comparative Disability Law Web Resources.
- International Centre for Bioethics, Culture and Disability.
- Manitoba Human Rights Commission.
- Mental Disability Advocacy Centre (MDAC)
- Mental Health Commission of Canada.
- National Council on Disability.
- National Disability Rights Network.
- New Brunswick Human Rights Commission.
- New Zealand Mental Health Commission.
- Newfoundland Human Rights Commission.
- Non-Discrimination in International Law: A Handbook for Practitioners.
- Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission.
- Office of Disability Issues.
- Oliver's Blog - Mental Disability Advocacy Centre (MDAC)
- Ontario Human Rights commission.
- PEI Human Rights Commission.
- PsychRights: Law Project for Psychiatric Rights.
- Special Education Law Blog.
- UN Enable.
- What Sorts of People.
- WrightsLaw.