Synopsis: The end of the year 2015 and start of 2016 has me
thinking of things I wish for during the new year.
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"One of my wishes for the new year is that the
lawmakers of America will actually ratify the CRPD and stop spitting out
excuses for why they have not or cannot."
The end of the year 2015 and start of 2016 has me thinking
of things I wish for during the new year. Some of these things can only come
from lawmakers. Others could come from organizations, politicians, the Veterans
Administration, or police officers. It will be interesting to reach the end of
2016 and find out if any of these wishes, which many people with disabilities,
seniors and veterans have, actually become reality.
Ratification of the Convention on the Rights of Persons
with Disabilities
As the Convention on the Rights of Persons with
Disabilities (CRPD) states: "The purpose of the present Convention is to
promote, protect and ensure the full and equal enjoyment of all human rights
and fundamental freedoms by all persons with disabilities, and to promote
respect for their inherent dignity. Persons with disabilities include those who
have long-term physical, mental, intellectual or sensory impairments which in
interaction with various barriers may hinder their full and effective
participation in society on an equal basis with others."
Apparently, the United States of America has chosen not to
promote, protect or ensure the full and equal enjoyment of all human rights and
fundamental freedoms by all persons with disabilities by failing to ratify the
CRPD. The year of 2016 is an election year in America, one that might find a
politician actually promising to ratify this crucial Convention. While the rest
of the world is reaching for ratification of the Convention, America is,
'hemming and hawing,' over ratification.
Failure to ratify the CRPD, to me, makes it far more
difficult to support politicians who have failed to support us as People with
Disabilities. Instead of showing all people, with or without forms of
disabilities, that the U.S. Government is actually there for people when they
do experience a form of disability - the U.S. Government has signed and then
promptly forgotten the CRPD. The excuses for failing to ratify run around the
mouths of politicians in America I am quite sure. None of their excuses are
worth the time to listen to them.
One of my wishes for the new year is that the lawmakers of
America will actually ratify the CRPD and stop spitting out excuses for why
they have not or cannot. Until the politicians of America do ratify the CRPD -
I am someone who will never, ever respect anything else they do or say. The
politicians of America are already on very thin ice where many people are
concerned. Perhaps ratification of the CRPD will enable politicians to show
they still have a shred of humanity left.
To read more on this story, click here: New Year Wishes for Americans with Disability
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