At-a-glance: UN disability treaty

Here is an at-a-glance guide to the draft United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities:

• Participating countries to change laws and ban discriminatory customs and practices
• Disabled people to have an equal right to life
• Equal rights for disabled women and girls
• Protection for children with disabilities
• A right to own and inherit property, to control financial affairs and have equal access to financial services
• Disabled people not to be deprived of their liberty "unlawfully or arbitrarily"
• Medical or scientific experiments without consent to be banned
• An end to enforced institutionalisation
• Freedom from exploitation, violence and abuse
• A right to privacy and access to medical records
• Countries to remove barriers to accessing the environment, transport, public facilities and communication
• A right to independent living
• Essential equipment to be made affordable
• A right to an adequate standard of living and social protection
• An end to discrimination relating to marriage, family and personal relationships
• Equal access to education
• An end to discrimination in the job market
• A right to equal participation in public life
• A right to participate in cultural life
• Developing countries to be assisted to put the convention into practice

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