Resources

Publications / Kits / Awareness Materials

• Ratification Toolkit of UNCRPD , Disabled Peoples’ International (DPI)
• Implementation Toolkit of UNCRPD , Disabled Peoples’ International (DPI)
• Training Kit on UNCRPD, Handicap International
• Handbook for Parliamentarians - From Exclusion to Equality - Realizing the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, United Nations (3.96 MB)
• We have Human Rights - A Human Righs Handbook for People with Development Disabilities, Harvard Project on Disability (4.47 MB)
• Child Friendly version of UNCRPD (150 KB), UNICEF The Victor Pineda Foundation
• Simplified Version of UNCRPD, The Secretariat of the African Decade of Persons with Disabilities (850 KB)
• ‘The Accessibility Imperative’ , a book on the challenges and opportunities of implementing the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in matters of accessibility to Information and Communication Technologies

Research / Reports

• Italian Association Amici di Raoul Follereau(AIFO): CBR and UN Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities workshop: Report .
• Regional Conference on Disability in Common Wealth Asia: The Commonwealth Foundation through its Disabled Peoples Forum and Leonard Cheshire Disability through its work in 52 countries are working towards ratification of UNCRPD in all Commonwealth countries. As part of this initiative, a “Regional Conference on Disability in Commonwealth Asia”, was held at Bangalore (India) from 6th to 8th December 2008. A full report is attached here .
• Baseline Reports on Core Issues: NCPEDP with support of British High Commission has initiated a project which focusses on bringing about policy changes in the following five core issues: Accessibility, Employment, Health, Information and Communications Technology and Rural Development. The Baseline Reports from these five Core Groups are available for download here:
  • Accessibility
  • Employment
  • Health
  • Information and Communications Technology
  • Rural Development

Websites

• UN Enable: This is the official UN site with information about the Convention including progress on international ratifications and related reports. It also includes the text of the Convention in accessible HTML and PDF formats. The Resources section has a list of relevant documents, publications, reports and handbooks.
• Disability Rights Fund : CRPD and Other Human Rights Tools and Resources
• G3ICT, The Global Initiative for Inclusive ICTs , a Flagship Advocacy Initiative of the United Nations Global Alliance for ICT and Development
• The Human Rights Law Network (HRLN) is a collective of lawyers and social activists dedicated to the use of legal system to advance human rights. The Disability section in the website has PILs & Cases, Resources, Publications, Know Your Rights, Law For All, Media and Stories
• Punarbhava, National Interactive Web Portal on Disability : Resources section
• We Can Do : Resources on the International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
• Source: It is an international information support centre designed to strengthen the management, use and impact of information on health and disability: Resource Library: Disability, Inclusion and Development
• CBR Forum: Links to External Resources on Disability, Human Rights, CBR
• CRIN (Child Rights Information Network): Disability Convention - Tips & Strategies for Implementation