Disability Law and Policy

Harvard HKS

According to World Bank estimates, persons with disabilities comprise 15% of the global population, or more than one billion individuals. Nevertheless, until the adoption of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), the world's largest minority group was largely excluded from global human rights protection (e.g., UN human rights treaty work), global initiatives (notably the Millennium Development Goals), and national level law and policy programming, with…