Opening for signature
The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities was adopted on 13 December 2006 during the sixty-first session of the General Assembly by resolution A/RES/61/106. In accordance with its article 42, the Convention and its Optional Protocol opened for signature by all States and by regional integration organizations at United Nations Headquarters in New York on 30 March 2007. The opening began with a solemn ceremony in the United Nations General Assembly hall.
Solemn ceremony at United Nations Headquarters
- Video of the ceremony
[2 hours and 50 minutes]
- List of Signatory States and Regional Integration Organizations
- List of Ratifying States and Regional Integration Organizations
- Status of the Convention and its Optional Protocol
- Photos
- Videos of informal comments on the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities by Representatives of Germany [2 minutes], Jamaica [3 minutes], New Zealand [4 minutes], South Africa [1 minute], Ecuador [in Spanish, 6 minutes], France [2 minutes], Jordan [in Arabic, 2 minutes], and Honduras [in Spanish, 1 minute]
High-level dialogue and press conferences
- High-level dialogue on "From vision to action: The road to implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities", 30 March 2007
- Programme
- List of Speakers [PDF, 47KB]
- Video [4 hours and 18 minutes]
- Press Conference: Ms. Louise Arbour, High Commissioner for Human Rights; H.E. Mr. Lenin Moreno, Vice President of Ecuador; H.E. Ms. Ruth Dyson, Minister of Disabilities Issues of New Zealand; H.E. Juan Manuel Gomez Robledo, Under-Secretary for Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights of Mexico; and Mr. Yannis Vardakastanis from the International Disability Caucus brief correspondents on the opening for signature of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 30 March 2007
- Video [37 minutes]
- Highlights
- Video
- Mr. Thomas Schindlmayr, United Nations Disability Expert, on the opening for signature of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 29 March 2007
- Video [47 minutes]
- Highlights
- Video