Congressional Digest

International Debates Archives September 2012 No. 6 Vol. 10
Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities

Law of the Sea Convention

National Jurisdiction Over Use of the World's Oceans

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Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee, on July 26, approved a treaty to set global standards for the treatment of the disabled. The panel voted 13 to 6 to send to the floor an amended draft resolution to ratify the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Persons with Disabilities, a pact signed by the United States in 2009 and sent to the Senate for ratification in May 2012. Committee Chair John Kerry (MA-D), spoke in favor of the resolution, saying that it would help to “ensure that American citizens, including our men and women in uniform and our disabled…

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