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...to the Human Rights & Disability web site (previously just known as: 'un-convention.info'), the UK's only site dedicated to promoting disabled people's human rights and fundamental freedoms.

First launched as a way of keeping disabled Britons informed about negotiation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, since UK signature of the Convention - on 30 March 2007 - the site is being expanded to provide a wider human rights resource for disabled people, wherever they live.

Updating the site

Whilst many of the pages on the site do not need to be updated regularly - the 'human rights' and 'faq' pages, for example - there are additions to the site on an almost daily basis. The most frequent changes are 'In the media' (links to relevant articles in the mainstream media), the 'Blog' and the 'Status of the Convention' pages of the site.

Visitors may like to know that there is an RSS feed from the Blog section of this site, which may be loaded on the toolbar of Firefox or read with one of the RSS Reader Services (including Google). The BBC site provides an excellent description of RSS Feeds. The URL address for this site's RSS feed is: http://www.un-convention.info/page37/files/blog.xml

UK Convention Petition

A petition on the 10 Downing Street web site invites you to sign up to the following:

"We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in full, without reservation or limitation, by December 2008."

The petition had achieved 3,288 signatures by 20 August, with just 115 signatures added in a little over a month (3,173 signatures as of 15 July 2008).

You can read - and sign - the petition by following this link.