UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

The purpose of the present Convention is to promote, protect and ensure the full and equal enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms by…

For the purposes of this Convention:

The principles of this Convention are:

The States Parties undertake to ensure and promote the full realization of all human rights and fundamental freedoms for all persons with…

The States Parties recognize that everyone is equal before the law and has the right, without discrimination, to the same protection by, and the same…

States Parties recognize that women and girls with disabilities are subject to multiple discrimination and shall, in this regard, take measures to…

The States Parties shall take all necessary measures to ensure the full enjoyment by children with disabilities of all human rights and fundamental…

The States Parties undertake to adopt immediate, effective and appropriate measures:

In order to enable persons with disabilities to live independently and participate fully in all aspects of life, States Parties shall take…

The States Parties reaffirm that every human being has the inherent right to life and shall take all necessary measures to ensure its effective…

States Parties shall take, in accordance with their obligations under international law, including international humanitarian law and international…

The States Parties reaffirm that persons with disabilities have the right to recognition everywhere as persons before the law.

States Parties shall ensure effective access to justice for persons with disabilities on an equal basis with others, including through the provision…

The States Parties shall ensure that persons with disabilities, on an equal basis with others:

No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. In particular, no one shall be subjected without his…

States Parties shall take all appropriate legislative, administrative, social, educational and other measures to protect persons with disabilities…

Every person with a disability has the right to respect for his physical and mental integrity on an equal basis with others.

States Parties shall recognise the rights of persons with disabilities to liberty of movement, to freedom to choose their residence and to a…

States Parties to this Convention recognize the equal right of all persons with disabilities to live in the community, with choices equal to others…

States Parties shall take effective measures to ensure personal mobility with the greatest possible independence for persons with disabilities…

States Parties shall take all appropriate measures to ensure that persons with disabilities can exercise the right to freedom of expression and…

No person with a disability, regardless of his or her place of residence or living arrangements, shall be subjected to arbitrary or unlawful…

States Parties shall take effective and appropriate measures to eliminate discrimination against persons with disabilities in all matters relating to…

States Parties recognise the right of persons with disabilities to education. With a view to realising this right without discrimination and on the…

States Parties recognize that persons with disabilities have the right to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health without…

States Parties shall take effective and appropriate measures, including through peer support, to enable persons with disabilities to attain the…

States Parties recognize the right of persons with disabilities to work, on an equal basis with others; this includes the right to the opportunity to…

The States Parties recognize the right of persons with disabilities to an adequate standard of living for themselves and their families, including…

The States Parties shall guarantee to persons with disabilities political rights and the opportunity to enjoy them on an equal basis with others, and…

The States Parties recognize the right of persons with disabilities to take part on an equal basis with others in cultural life, and shall take all…

The States Parties undertake to collect relevant information, including statistical and research data, in order to enable them to formulate and…

States Parties recognize the importance of international cooperation and its promotion, in support of national efforts for the realization of the…

The States Parties shall designate, within their administrative organisation, one or more focal points for matters relating to the implementation of…

A Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities shall be established (hereinafter referred to as "the Committee") which shall exercise the…

Each State Party shall, within two years after the entry into force of this Convention for the State Party concerned, submit to the Committee…

Each report shall be considered by the Committee, which may make such suggestions and general recommendations thereon as it may consider appropriate…

Each State Party shall cooperate with the Committee and assist its members in the fulfilment of their mandate.

In order to promote the effective implementation of this Convention, and to encourage international cooperation in the field to which this Convention…

The Committee shall report once every two years to the General Assembly and to the Economic and Social Council and may make suggestions and general…

The States Parties shall meet periodically in a Conference of the States Parties in order to consider matters relating to the implementation of this…

The Secretary-General of the United Nations is the depositary of this Convention.

This Convention shall be open for signature by all States and regional integration organisations at United Nations Headquarters in New York as of 30…

This Convention shall be ratified by the signatory States and formally confirmed by the signatory regional integration organisations. It shall be…

An “regional integration organisation” means an organisation constituted by sovereign States of a given region, to which its member States have…

This Convention shall enter into force thirty days after the deposit of the twentieth instrument of ratification or accession.

Reservations that are incompatible with the object and purpose of this Convention are not permitted.

Any State Party may propose an amendment to this Convention and submit it to the Secretary-General of the United Nations. The Secretary-General shall…

A State Party may denounce this Convention by means of a written notification to the Secretary-General of the United Nations. The denunciation shall…

The text of this Convention shall be made available in accessible formats.

The Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish texts of this Convention are equally authentic.