Commission makes a Statement to the 2nd Session of Ad-Hoc Committee
The Commission has stressed the need for the development of a Comprehensive and Integral International Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
In a Statement to the Second Session of the UN Ad-Hoc Committee in New York on 18 June 2003, the Commission stated that the development of a specific Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities was long overdue and the experience of the Indian Commission working in this field strongly demonstrated the need for such a Convention. The Commission's Statement on its own behalf and on behalf of the Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions was made by Mr. Virendra Dayal, Member of the Commission.
The Commission stated that the development of a comprehensive and integral international convention provided an opportunity to demonstrate the indivisibility and interdependence of rights on one hand, and on the other, the symbiotic interplay between development and human rights. The development of such a Convention would be a signal achievement of the early years of the 21st Century; it is an objective that all national human rights institutions look forward to realizing, the Commission said.
(Full text of the Statement is available on the Commission's website http://nhrc.nic.in ).
In a Statement to the Second Session of the UN Ad-Hoc Committee in New York on 18 June 2003, the Commission stated that the development of a specific Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities was long overdue and the experience of the Indian Commission working in this field strongly demonstrated the need for such a Convention. The Commission's Statement on its own behalf and on behalf of the Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions was made by Mr. Virendra Dayal, Member of the Commission.
The Commission stated that the development of a comprehensive and integral international convention provided an opportunity to demonstrate the indivisibility and interdependence of rights on one hand, and on the other, the symbiotic interplay between development and human rights. The development of such a Convention would be a signal achievement of the early years of the 21st Century; it is an objective that all national human rights institutions look forward to realizing, the Commission said.
(Full text of the Statement is available on the Commission's website http://nhrc.nic.in ).