EU Disability Law and the UNCRPD

The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) is an important legal tool for promoting the human rights of people with disabilities. The Convention elaborates and clarifies existing obligations, providing within a single text the accepted global legal standards on disability rights. It recognises that equality, dignity, autonomy, independence, accessibility and inclusion are key to ensuring that people with disabilities are able to enjoy the same human rights across the world. In doing so, certain paradigm shifts are introduced changing the status of people with disabilities in international human rights law. These training materials are designed to offer members of the judiciary (judges, prosecutors and other judicial staff), legal practitioners (lawyers, as well as NGOs and academics with a legal background) and policy practitioners (national civil servants and NGOs working on policy issues) the opportunity to understand specific topics and concepts contained in the UNCRPD and the European legal framework on matters governed by it. They include video presentations available in English and International Sign Language. Produced in the framework of the European Commission's Rights, Equality and Citizenship Programme 2014-2020.