Useful Resources

United Nations, Report of the Secretary-General on the Status of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Optional Protocol thereto. (A/69/284, A/67/281, (A/66/121, A/64/128).
United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and Inter-Parliamentary Union. From exclusion to equality: Realizing the rights of persons with disabilities. Handbook for parliamentarians. Geneva, United Nations, 2007. (Professional training series No.14) http://www.ohchr.org.
United Nations official documents (available at: www.ods.un.org) United Nations. General Assembly. Thematic Study by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on enhancing awareness and understanding of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. (A/HRC/10/48).
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Thematic study on the structure and role of national mechanisms for the implementation and monitoring of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (A/HRC/13/29), 2009. http:// www.ohchr.org.
United Nations Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on progress in the implementation of the recommendations contained in the study on the human rights of persons with disabilities. (A/HRC/4/75).
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Monitoring the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities- Guidance for Human Rights Monitors, (HR/P/PT/217), (Professional training series No. 17), 2010. http://www.ohchr.org.
Michael Ashley Stein & Janet E. Lord, “Monitoring the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Innovations, Lost Opportunities, and Future Potential,” 32 Human Rights Quarterly 691 (August 2010).