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- “From Principles to Practice” – A symposium on international disability law
- “Disability Rights Law and Policy” – A book on international disability law
External 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
- 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)
- List of countries that have signed or ratified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)
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/publications/2003/Sept92003
- U.S. State Department Country Reports on Human Rights Practices