Year: 2010
Type: article
Abstract: Organization's respective conventions on employing and educating persons with disabilities, 4 adopted the Biwako Millennium Framework on disability and development, 5 and has hosted the Far East and South Pacific Games for the Disabled in Beijing, 6 the Special Olympics Worldwide Summer Games in Shanghai, 7 and most recently, the Paralympic Games in Beijing.8 Of greatest significance, and as detailed in the next section, the PRC was highly supportive of the negotiation and adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD or Convention), 9 a progressive human rights treaty that it has since ratified.10 By embracing these initiatives and activities, China has engendered a significant expressive affect.11 PRC approbation demonstrates to the global community that equality for persons with disabilities is an important issue, one that a leading world power has expended political capital to champion.12 It also indicates that although criticism is justified for various human rights shortcomings in China, 13 Commission, 58th Sess., May 16-22, 2002, at 2 (May 22, 2002) [hereinafter UNESCAP Res.58/4].As stated above, China belongs to the bodies adopting these resolutions.4. See, e.g., INT'L LABOUR FORCE, ILO VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION AND EMPLOYMENT (DISABLED PERSONS) CONVENTION NO. 159 AND RECOMMENDATION NO. 168, (2008).China is a member of the Governing Body of the International Labour Organization.5. See generally U.N. Secretariat, Biwako Millennium Framework for Action Towards an Inclusive, Barrier-Free and Rights-Based Society for Persons with Disabilities in Asia and the Pacific, Note by the Secretariat, Econ.& Soc.Comm'n for Asia & the Pac., U.N. Doc.E/ESCAP/APDDP/4/Rev.1 (Nov.27, 2002).6.Previous Hosts, KL '06 FESPIC GAMES, http://web.archive.org/web/20080622192940/http://www.kl06fespicgames.com.my/aboutFespic/default.asp?p=about&p1=about2&what= archive (accessed by searching for KL '06 FESPIC Games in the Internet Archive index).7. 2007 SPECIAL OLYMPICS WORLD SUMMER GAMES, http://www.2007specialolympics.com/Webenglish/index.aspx (last visited Oct. 15, 2011).8. BEIJING 2008 PARALYMPIC GAMES, http://en.paralympic.beijing2008.cn/index.shtml(last visited Oct. 15, 2011).9. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, G.A. Res.61/106, U.N. Doc.A/RES/61
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Author: Michael Ashley Stein
Institution: Loyola Marymount University
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1596496526