Monitoring the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Innovations, Lost Opportunities, and Future Potential

As the first human rights treaty of the twenty-first century, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) protects some 650 million persons with disabilities. The CRPD also has an opportunity to progressively reconfigure the structure and process of human rights o...

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Published in:Human rights quarterly 2010-08, Vol.32 (3), p.689-728
Main Authors: Stein, Michael Ashley, Lord, Janet E.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Ad hoc committees
Committees
Compliance
Congresses and Conventions
Cooperation
Creativity
Disabilities
Disability
Disabled persons
Disorders
Environmental law
Human Rights
Innovations
Institutional reform
International cooperation
International law
Law
Law schools
Monitoring
Monitoring systems
Nongovernmental organizations
Oversight
Physically Handicapped
Policy implementation
Proposals
Provisions
Recommendations
Reform
Reforms
Term limitations
Treaties
UN Conventions
United Nations
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Summary:As the first human rights treaty of the twenty-first century, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) protects some 650 million persons with disabilities. The CRPD also has an opportunity to progressively reconfigure the structure and process of human rights oversight. While the overall framework for monitoring and implementing the CRPD resembles existing core human rights instruments, it has some notable features. The CPRD Committee is endowed with several innovations of significant potential, especially in the breadth of reporting and investigative procedures, thereby offering prospects for other treaty bodies and the human rights system more generally. Accordingly, this article examines the development of the CRPD Committee and assesse its potential for invigorating future United Nations monitoring reforms.
ISSN:0275-0392
1085-794X
1085-794X
DOI:10.1353/hrq.2010.0003