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Tuesday, January 5, 2016

New Year Wishes for Americans with Disability



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.

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