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Legal Analyses of the Draft Convention
During the early part of the Convention negotiations, LSN saw the need to analyze the documents produced to ensure that the texts were consistent with human rights law, and ensure that the negotiations were not undercutting the significant achievements of people with disabilities in advancing their rights over the past two decades. We accordingly produced three three legal analyses and our perspective in this exercise remains that of the “rights-holder. ” We seek a Convention that both speaks to the particular challenges faced by people with disabilities around the world while opening up opportunities for them to confront those challenges and collaborate with states parties to ensure that the economic, social, cultural, civil and political rights of people with disabilities, as reflected in the existing human rights treaty framework, are comprehensively protected.

Legal Analysis of the Modifications Proposed at the 3rd UN Ad Hoc Committee Meeting - Commentary on Proposed Modifications of the text produced by the Working Group for the UN Ad Hoc Committee on a Comprehensive and Integral International Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities made at the 3rd Ad Hoc Committee Meeting May 24 to June 4, 2004.
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January 16, 2004 - Draft Comprehensive and Integral International Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities.
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Government Responses to Draft Treaty Text – June 2004
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Convention Document Legal Analysis - A legal commentary on the draft convention text produced by the Working Group for the UN Ad Hoc Committee on a Comprehensive and Integral International Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities

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Spanish: Download now in .DOC (Microsoft Word) format (460 Kb)
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January 2004 - Draft Comprehensive and Integral International Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities.
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Convention Document Comparative Analysis
A comparative analysis of the Mexican, Bangkok and New Zealand Contributions to the UN Ad Hoc Committee on a Comprehensive and Integral International Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities
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