United Nations Declares International Day of Disabled Persons
The United Nations declared this day the International Day of Disabled Persons.
The United Nations signed UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on March 30, 2007. Although it was inspired by the U.S. Americans with Disabilities Act, signed into law on July 26, 1990, the U.S. has still not ratified the Convention because of conservative opposition in the Senate (see November 5, 2013).
Go to the UN web site: http://www.un.org/disabilities/default.asp?id=1561
Read the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: http://www.un.org/disabilities/convention/conventionfull.shtml
Learn more: Kim Nielsen, A Disability History of the United States (2012)
Read More: Fred Pelka, What We Have Done: An Oral History of the Disability Rights Movement (2012)
Learn more about the rights of persons with disabilities: https://www.aclu.org/disability-rights
Learn more about laws on the rights of the disabled in the U.S.: http://www.ada.gov/cguide.htm
Learn more at the National Disability Rights Network: http://www.ndrn.org/index.php