From exclusion to equality
Subtitle: realizing the rights of persons with disabilities : handbook for parliamentarians on the Convention of the Rights of persons with disabilities and its optional protocol.
Contributors: United Nations. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.; Inter-parliamentary Union.
Series: Handbook for parliamentarians -- no. 14
Publisher: United Nations; UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights; Inter-Parliamentary Union
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York; Geneva
Language: eng
Number of pages: 150
ISBN-13: 9789291423477
Subjects: People with disabilities -- Legal status, laws, etc; People with disabilities -- Civil rights -- International cooperation; Human rights; Civil rights
Other titles: Realizing the rights of persons with disabilities; Handbook for parliamentarians on the Convention of the Rights of persons with disabilities and its optional protocol.
Notes: "HR/PUB/07/6."

Includes bibliographical references and appendices.

Available also online as a PDF file via the World Wide Web.
Table of contents: title: Overview; title: The Convention in detail; title: Monitoring the Convention and the Optional Protocol; title: Becoming a party to the Convention and Optional Protocol; title: National legislation and the Convention; title: From provisions to practice : implementing the Convention; title: Creating national institutions to implement and monitor the Convention.