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Friday, May 24, 2013

Anti-Business and Anti-Freedom: The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

by Hans Bader on May 23, 2013 · 0 comments

In the American Spectator, CEI Vice President for Strategy Iain Murray and Geoffrey McLatchey explain why the Senate should be skeptical of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which fell six votes short of the 67 needed for ratification last December.  As they note, “the treaty would enable an enormous increase in the potential power of UN bureaucrats over the American people and undermine national sovereignty.”  Moreover, although “CRPD proponents argue that it merely reiterates existing U.S. disability law,” this is simply false, based on the treaty’s plain language.

It also delegates authority to a UN committee, they note, resulting in a “loss of U.S. sovereignty.” UN committees like to define free speech as discrimination against minority groups in violation of international treaties, making it dangerous to ratify such treaties.  For example, the  U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has ruled Germany violated international law by not prosecuting a former legislator for remarks to a scholarly journal about Turkish-immigrant welfare recipients that were deemed racially offensive. The UN committee ruled Germany’s failure to prosecute the speaker violated the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination…..To Read More….

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