A new human rights convention may not arouse optimism, especially when the convention addresses the concerns of a special group as is the case with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (hereinafter CRPD), which was adopted by the General Assembly on the 13 th of December, 2006 and was opened for signature by State parties on 30 th March, 2007.
It is in this environment of growing skepticism, which the reform efforts have in no way curbed, that the United Nations has adopted the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. UN Human Rights Treaty Body Reform Towards a Permanent Unified Treaty Body. Amongst them being a reconstitution of the permanent members of the Security Council and the effort to restructure and reform the treaty implementation bodies. These criticisms along with others have prompted some of the structural reform efforts that engage the attention of the World body. 2008.įurther the human rights instruments which were a mechanism to obtain accountability from States have yielded meager benefits to the people on the ground instead these Charters of universal values have become a convenient stick in the hand of the first world with which to batter the third world. For a bibliography of writings on reforming the United Nations see. The United Nations it has been contended is not in harmony with the hopes and aspirations of the global south and operates much more like the hand maiden of the first world countries.
This challenge has included the raising of queries on the relevance of the United Nations system, which was founded on the power dynamics of the post war world. The emergence of a unipolar world has resulted in traditional understandings of international law to be challenged. Keywords: Persons with disabilities - Welfare - Discrimination - Autonomy - Indivisibility - Participation This is because the Convention alters the lexicon of disability rights and offers fresh insight on the way to resolve some perennial human rights dilemmas. The Article examines the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which is the first human rights instrument of the millennium to understand how the disability rights discourse has been altered, and to contribute to human rights jurisprudence.
Constructing a new Human Rights lexicon: Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
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