Cerebral Palsy: Founder advocates rights of disabled children

The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its Optional Protocol was adopted in 2006 at the UN Headquarters and was opened for signature on 2007.

The convention follows decades of work by the United Nations to change attitudes and approaches toward persons living with disabilities. It takes to a new height the movement from viewing persons with disabilities as ‘objects’ of charity, medical treatment and social protection towards viewing persons with disabilities as ‘subjects’ with rights, who are capable of claiming those rights and making decisions for their lives based on their free and informed consent as well as being active members of society.