AUTISM The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UN CRPD)

The UN CRPD is an international human rights treaty that reaffirms that all persons with disabilities must enjoy all human rights and fundamental freedoms.

Its articles clarify that all disabled persons have the right to participate in civil, political, economic, social and cultural life of the community just as anyone else.

The Convention clearly stipulates what public and private authorities must do to ensure and promote the full enjoyment of these rights by all disabled people.

The UN CRPD was signed by the EU in 2007 and later ratified in December 2010.

http://www.autismeurope.org/main-fields-of-action/monitoring-the-un-crpd/

The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its Optional Protocol (A/RES/61/106) was adopted on 13 December 2006 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, and was opened for signature on 30 March 2007.

 Rights of people with autism

People with autism have fundamental rights that are enshrined in international, European and national laws.

Although people with autism have the same human value and human rights as everyone else, their needs in education, habilitation and health care are not always fulfilled.

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Autism and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2011)

http://www.autismeurope.org/files/files/un-leaflet-2012-final-en.pdf