EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is a guest post by David Evangelista, Acting President & Managing Director of the Special Olympics Europe-Eurasia Region.
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is a guest blog by Mark Engman, Director of Public Policy & Advocacy for the U.S. Fund for UNICEF.
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following post is a guest post from Mary Davis, Acting CEO of Special Olympics.
Today, as on every 10 December, our global society recognizes and celebrates the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Day. A day in…
Why its Time to Support the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
By Tim Shriver
Friends:
The United States Supreme Court’s ruling in Bond v. United States earlier this week…
The New York Times recently reprinted this article explaining the importance and impact of the United Nations’ Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities (CRPD).
Theodore Roosevelt once said that American politics is World politics, a statement that reflects America’s proud role as the world’s moral compass. Yesterday, with the U.S. Senate’s failure to ratify the Convention on the Rights of Persons…
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted by a 13–6 margin to send the United Nations’ Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) to the Senate for a full vote.
Our athletes and others with Intellectual Disabilities (ID) need your help. Did you know that despite significant progress in the United States in the treatment and resources for people with ID, that in many parts of the world they are…
A couple weeks ago, we asked who would join our village in making the impossible possible to ensure people with intellectual disabilities, bound by discrimination, isolation, misunderstanding and poverty, would be on the forefront of the Global Development agenda. This week, at the…
