Resources - Links
United Nations
- United Nations Internet Sites on Disability
- United Nations Programme on Disability
- United Nations virtual dialogue forum (Accessible website with current information on activities toward the elaboration of a new legal instrument on disability.) The forum also allows interested parties to join a special electronic discussion where the Working Group of the Ad Hoc Committee on a disability convention will discuss, prepare and submit the text of a draft convention
- United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)
- United Nations Treaty Collection Home Page (English)
- United Nations International Court of Justice
- International Labor Organization ("ILO" – U.N. agency for the promotion of social justice and the protection of labour rights)
- NATLEX (ILO's bibliographic database of national labour laws)
- Current information on the activities of the U.N. Ad Hoc Committee on an International Convention to promote and protect the rights and dignity of persons with disabilities, as well as regional meetings related to the promotion of rights of people with disabilities, can be found at: http://www.worldenable.net/rights/
Regional Bodies
- Council of Europe
- European Court of Human Rights
- European Union
- European Union Treaties Home Page
- Organization of American States
National Government Websites
- Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Disability Rights Page
- United Kingdom Disability Rights Commission Home Page
- U.S. Department of Justice ADA Home Page
- Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
- Civil Rights Division
- U.S. National Council on Disability Report: Foreign Policy and Disability: Legislative Strategies and Civil Rights Protections to Ensure Inclusion of People with Disabilities (September 2003): http://www.ncd.gov/newsroom/publications/foreign03.html
- Independent Living Institute Website
- Independent Living Institute Newsletter Index
- Global Applied Disability Research and Information Network (Gladnet)
- Opening page to Gladnet's information/infobase
- Findlaw International Law Resource
- Global Legal Information Network
- University of Minnesota Online Human Rights Library
