Essential CRPD Resources

General CRPD Resources:  To access the UN Enable website, view texts of the CRPD, updates on signing/ratification and the UN Enable newsletters.

CRPD Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities information:  Find information on the CRPD Committee within OHCHR. 

Guides and Training Resources:  Analyses and educational materials on the CRPD.  You will also find the DPI ratification handbook, tools for Parlimentarians and information which will support your research.

Monitoring of the CRPD:  View to learn how states must report to the CRPD Committee and materials to educate and support alternate reporting. This section also includes information on UN human rights monitoring mechnanisms.

CRPD Conference of States Parties (COSP): Find information on the annual gatherings of States Parties and civil society.

Human Rights/OHCHR information:  In this section you will find information on the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), other UN Treaty bodies, Human Rights Council and other special UN Procedures related to persons with disabilities.

Universal Periodic Review (UPR): The UPR mechanism is a new innovation in the UN human rights system, under which each UN member state will be reviewed periodically-- at this stage every 4 years-- on its human rights record by the other member States of the Human Rights Council. 48 countries will be reviewed each year.  Information here will assist NGOs to engage in this process.

Additional Disability and Human Rights information: Overviews of the human rights system of people with disabiltiies, legal framework and historical timelines.

IDA CRPD Forum: Information and newsletters from the IDA CRPD Forum, a civil society structure working toward implementation of the CRPD.