As Wheelchair America First Runner Up, I want to congratulate President Obama for his leadership in making the commitment to sign the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) in commemoration of the 19th Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
Handicap International (HI), the international NGO that I am working with this summer in the Washington DC area, gave me an opportunity to write about this historical moment. Please click on the website below to read the brief:
http://www.handicap-international.us/in-the-us/in-brief/?dechi_actus%5Bid%5D=66&cHash=f29fc4240d
Furthermore, in celebration of today's monumental achievement in the disability rights community, I visited all three branches of the U.S. Federal Government- the White House where President Obama signed a document to send Ambassador Rice to sign the UNCRPD in New York next week, the Capitol where laws were being passed for healthcare, and the Supreme Court where liberty and justice united. I believe Franklin D. Roosevelt would have been proud of our victory to human rights for all people.
Handicap International (HI), the international NGO that I am working with this summer in the Washington DC area, gave me an opportunity to write about this historical moment. Please click on the website below to read the brief:
http://www.handicap-international.us/in-the-us/in-brief/?dechi_actus%5Bid%5D=66&cHash=f29fc4240d
Furthermore, in celebration of today's monumental achievement in the disability rights community, I visited all three branches of the U.S. Federal Government- the White House where President Obama signed a document to send Ambassador Rice to sign the UNCRPD in New York next week, the Capitol where laws were being passed for healthcare, and the Supreme Court where liberty and justice united. I believe Franklin D. Roosevelt would have been proud of our victory to human rights for all people.
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