The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UN CRPD) ensures that all persons with disabilities enjoy all human rights and fundamental freedoms.
The European Union (EU) has signed UN CRPD, and its efforts to implement the Convention have been reviewed by the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities last year.
The Committee has reviewed measures taken by the European Union (EU) to ensure that the rights of people with disabilities are considered in policies and other relevant legislative proposals. After this review, the UN Committee has published its Concluding Observations, stating that the European Union was systematically failing in certain areas and as a result, European measures were not good enough… http://bit.ly/cforum82