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Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

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Even though all UN human rights treaties apply to persons with disabilities, these rights were regularly ignored. It was felt that it was essential that a specific human rights treaty was enacted for persons with disabilities.

The CRPD does not create new rights for persons with disabilities – they have the same human rights as any other person in the community – but instead makes the existing rights inclusive of, and accessible to, persons with disabilities.