12 parliamentarians with disabilities both in the senate and the national assembly have petitioned their speakers, demanding structure adjustments be made im…
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Physically Challenged MPs Decry ‘Disability-Unfriendly’ Environment
May 24, 2013
Physically Challenged MPs Decry ‘Disability-Unfriendly’ Environment
February 26, 2013
Reasonable Accommodations for Pregnancy-Related Disability (SB …
Subject: Pregnancy Disability Leave, Job-Protected Leave Bill: S.B. 784/H.B. 804.
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February 2, 2013
RELEASE – Vermont: President of State Coalition for Disability …
Ed Paquin, president of the Vermont Coalition for Disability Rights, represented the disability rights community in hearings held in the state's Senate Health and Welfare Committee last week regarding a bill to legalize …
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RELEASE – Vermont: President of State Coalition for Disability …
Ed Paquin, president of the Vermont Coalition for Disability Rights, represented the disability rights community in hearings held in the state's Senate Health and Welfare Committee last week regarding a bill to legalize …
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December 19, 2012
Disability Treaty Opponents Succumb to UN Black Helicopter …
The Senate hasn't approved any major multilateral treaties since 1997.
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December 11, 2012
US Senate Fails to Ratify Disability Convention – Human Rights in …
Last week, the US Senate failed to reach the two-thirds majority required on a motion to ratify the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). You can view footage of the senate debate and ..
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December 9, 2012
Letters | Disability treaty, Obamacare in Kansas, military cuts …
The vote in the Senate was one of the lowest points in memory (12-5, A1, “Treaty fails, despite push from Dole”). The Senate refused to ratify the U.N
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Schieffer: How Washington has changed, in two acts
Bob Schieffer compares this week’s Senate block of UN Treaty on handicapped rights to the 1990 passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
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Schieffer: How Washington has changed, in two acts
December 6, 2012
The GOP votes against international disability accord – WBEZ
In the midst of all the headlines about how the cold-hearted GOP won't pass a middle-class tax cut until the president agrees to a tax cut on the rich, on Tuesday the Senate came up short on the two-thirds vote required to ratify …
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The GOP votes against international disability accord – WBEZ
A step backward in disability rights
This week the United States Senate failed to ratify the Convention on the Rights of Persons With Disabilities , a treaty that forbids discrimination against people with AIDS, who are blind, who use wheelchairs and the like.
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A step backward in disability rights