<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <html><head><style type="text/css"></style><title>US and disability human rights</title></head><body> <div>http://www.tompaine.com/feature2.cfm/ID/8326</div> <div><br></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="+1" color="#2F4E9B"><b>Too Many Human Rights</b></font><font face="Arial" size="-1" color="#000000"> <br> Marta Russell is a writer whose focus is on the socio-economic aspects of disablement. She is the author of<i> Beyond Ramps: Disability at the End of the Social Contract</i> (Common Courage Press).<br> <br> <br> <b>The Bush administration</b> continues to set itself apart from world opinion, this time by not actively supporting a U.N. effort to create a disability-sensitive human rights treaty. Fortunately, more than 100 other nations do not share the U.S.'s position.<br> <br> The administration's views became known at "The Second Ad Hoc Committee Meeting of the United Nations on a Comprehensive and Integral International Convention to Promote and Protect the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities," held in New York on June 16 to 27. The General Assembly charged the panel with deciding whether the United Nations should develop a disability-themed human rights treaty.</font></div> <x-sigsep><pre>-- </pre></x-sigsep> </body> </html>