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From: Kendall David Corbett <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mar 12, 2007 10:39 AM
Subject: FW: ACTION ALERT: Urge President Bush to Sign the UN Convention
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From: Justice For All Moderator [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 9:11 PM
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Subject: ACTION ALERT: Urge President Bush to Sign the UN Convention

ACTION ALERT: Urge President Bush to Sign the UN Convention
on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and its
Optional Protocol

The UN's Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
(CRPD) is a core international human rights convention (also
called a "treaty") addressing the rights of persons with
disabilities. It is the first UN human rights treaty ever to
comprehensively address the rights of persons with disabilities,
and is the fastest ever negotiated treaty of its kind!!!

The U.S. has not yet announced that it will sign the CRPD when
they are first able to do so on March 30th. Not signing would be
a departure from the United States' historic role as an
international leader in the field of disability and human rights
and may inadvertently discourage other countries from signing.
Other countries, including Mexico, New Zealand, Vietnam, and the
United Arab Emirates, have already announced they will sign on
March 30th.

The United States should not miss this opportunity to be counted
amongst the first countries to sign  as a leader and champion of
the rights of persons with disabilities!

ACTION: Call or write:

1) Ollie Cantos, the Associate Director for Domestic Policy at the
White House

Olegario D. Cantos VII, Esq.
Associate Director for Domestic Policy
The White House
Washington, DC   20502
(202) 456-7330 [Voice/Relay]
(202) 395-1160; (202) 395-1144 [TTY]
(202) 456-5557 [Fax]
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2) Your Members of Congress
  (To determine who your Members are, visit: www.house.gov
  and www.senate.gov)

Ask Ollie and your Members to urge the President to sign the UN
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its
Optional Protocol on March 30th.

Tell them:

* The goals, principles, and objectives of the CRPD are entirely
consistent with American values and with the Americans with
Disabilities Act

* The United States helped to shape the international human rights
standards which the CRPD simply reaffirms

* Signing would require the United States to uphold the object
and purpose of the treaty nothing more.

* By not signing, the United States would be departing from their
historic role as an international leader in the field of
disability and human rights and may inadvertently discourage
other countries from signing

Tell them how important you feel it is for the United States to
join other countries in signing on March 30th.

WHEN: Today until March 30, 2007  Our goal is to have the U.S.
sign the convention on the first day they can  March 30th.

MORE INFO: To read the text of the UN Convention on the Rights of
Persons with Disabilities, go to:
http://www.un.org/disabilities/convention/conventionfull.shtml

For more information on the background of the CRPD, why it is
important, how it was negotiated, and the signature and
ratification process, please see the Disabled Peoples'
International online Ratification Toolkit, available here:
http://www.icrpd.net

Source: AAPD
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Kendall

An unreasonable man (but my wife says that's redundant!)

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress
depends on the unreasonable man.

-George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950

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