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Serbia signs UN Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Belgrade/New York,
18 December 2007
Serbian Assistant Minister of Labour and Social Policy Vladimir Pesic signed today in New York, on behalf of Serbia, the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its Optional Protocol.
The Ministry of Labour said in a statement that by this act Serbia has shown its readiness to be bound by this first human rights document adopted by the UN in the new millennium.
Also attending the ceremony was Serbian expert Damjan Tatic, who took part in the work of the Ad Hoc UN Committee for drafting the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the period from 2003 to 2006.
The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities promotes, protects and guarantees complete and efficient exercising of all human rights and basic freedoms to persons with disabilities and respect of their dignity.
The Convention promotes no new rights, regarding the fact that all general human rights and guaranteed freedoms belong to the disabled, but it ascertains actual measures to secure every civil, economic, social and cultural right to the disabled.
Special attention is given to non-discrimination and equality of the disabled, security of accessible physical surrounding, infrastructure, public transport, information, communication and public services, the upgrade of awareness level, information collecting and statistical data on the disabled, international cooperation, promotion and development of universal design, independent living of the disabled in a community and regulation of disabled women and children's status.
The Convention envisages the founding of national mechanisms for monitoring and an international committee on the rights of the disabled which will be made up of independent experts for supervising its implementation.
The contracting states will submit periodical reports on the implementation of the Convention to the committee and will be able to submit individual applications to this body in case the rights envisaged by the Convention are breached, on condition that the disabled person has exhausted all domestic legal remedies.
On December 13, 2006, the UN General Assembly unanimously adopted the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The Convention needs to be ratified by 20 states to enter into force. So far, the Convention has been signed by 119 states, 12 states have ratified it, while the Optional Protocol has been signed by 68 states, adds the statement.
Also attending the ceremony was Serbian expert Damjan Tatic, who took part in the work of the Ad Hoc UN Committee for drafting the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the period from 2003 to 2006.
The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities promotes, protects and guarantees complete and efficient exercising of all human rights and basic freedoms to persons with disabilities and respect of their dignity.
The Convention promotes no new rights, regarding the fact that all general human rights and guaranteed freedoms belong to the disabled, but it ascertains actual measures to secure every civil, economic, social and cultural right to the disabled.
Special attention is given to non-discrimination and equality of the disabled, security of accessible physical surrounding, infrastructure, public transport, information, communication and public services, the upgrade of awareness level, information collecting and statistical data on the disabled, international cooperation, promotion and development of universal design, independent living of the disabled in a community and regulation of disabled women and children's status.
The Convention envisages the founding of national mechanisms for monitoring and an international committee on the rights of the disabled which will be made up of independent experts for supervising its implementation.
The contracting states will submit periodical reports on the implementation of the Convention to the committee and will be able to submit individual applications to this body in case the rights envisaged by the Convention are breached, on condition that the disabled person has exhausted all domestic legal remedies.
On December 13, 2006, the UN General Assembly unanimously adopted the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The Convention needs to be ratified by 20 states to enter into force. So far, the Convention has been signed by 119 states, 12 states have ratified it, while the Optional Protocol has been signed by 68 states, adds the statement.
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