Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)
Basic facts about the CPRD
The reporting process
Guide for NGO submissions to the CRPD
Useful guides & Links
Basic facts about the CRPD
- The UN Convention of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities was created in 2006.
- The UK ratified the Convention in 2009.
- Click here to read the Convention
- Compliance with the treaty is monitored by the Committee for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
- Click here to read more about the Committee
- The UK’s obligations were last monitored in 2017
- The next reporting period for the UK will begin in 2023
The reporting process
- The Committee for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities operates a simplified reporting procedure.
- The Committee prepares and adopts Lists of Issues to be transmitted to state parties, and the replies of the State party to this list of issues are deemed to constitute the State party’s report.
Guide for NGO submissions to the CRPD
- NGOs may submit both independent shadow reports, and their own lists of questions for the Committee to consider when drafting their List of Issues
- A shadow report should start with a section providing up to date basic information on the state party
- This should be followed by a critical analysis of the state party report, examining how well the country has implemented the main provisions of the Convention
Useful guides and links
UK Submissions to UNCRPD
- List of Issues Presented to the UK by the UNCRPD, 2017
- Reply to the List of Issues by the UK to the UNCRPD, 2017
Civil Society guides and shadow reports
- Shadow reporting to the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: A Practical Guide for NGOs, Disability Council International
- Inclusion Scotland Shadow Report, 2017
- Joint Scottish Shadow Report from Inclusion Scotland, Self-Directed Support Scotland, People First (Scotland) Glasgow Disability Alliance, Lothian Centre for Inclusive Living, Glasgow Centre for Inclusive Living, Voices of Experience, the British Deaf Association, the Scottish Council on Deafness and Professor Nicholas Watson of the University of Glasgow, 2017
- Disability rights in Scotland: Supplementary submission to inform the CRPD List of Issues on the UK, Equality and Human Rights Commission and Scottish Human Rights Commission, 2017