Materials for Advocates
Advocacy Toolkit: All the materials you need to support the CRPD!
USICD has created an advocacy toolkit with information about Senator outreach, key messages, and myths/facts about the treaty . Advocates can also stay connected with USICD's CRPD advocacy efforts through our Facebook, Twitter, and Blog pages.
Contact your Senator: Visit the Senate website to find your Senators’ information or use this handy sheet which includes phone, Twitter, and Facebook information.
2015 USICD Letters:
Video Clips:
CRPD Media Response (View more media coverage of CRPD HERE!)
Disability Community Supporters List (Add your organization or view more supporters HERE!)
Veteran Community Supporters List
CRPD Business Support Fact Sheet
Disability Treaty Action Handout
CRPD Treaty Package Delivered to Senate (includes full analysis of how U.S. laws comply with the treaty)
Click Here to Download a copy of USICD's
CRPD Principles poster! (PDF)
UN Enable
UN Enable is the official site for the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Materials on this site include the Convention, updated information on ratification and signatures, and news from the Committee on Persons with Disabilities.
UN Enable Official Site
http://www.un.org/disabilities/
Source: UN Enable
CRPD Handbook
http://www.un.org/disabilities/documents/toolaction/ipuhb.pdf
Source: UN Enable
Easy Read Version of the CRPD
http://odi.dwp.gov.uk/docs/wor/uncon/easy-read-un-convention.pdf
Source: UN Enable
External Toolkits
In addition to USICD’s materials, other organizations have compiled helpful toolkits to guide your advocacy of the Convention and help promote its principles in your own community.
General Disability Rights Toolkit
http://www.handicap-international.fr/bibliographie-handicap/
Source: Handicap International
CRPD Teaching Kit
http://www.handicap-international.fr/kit-pedagogique/indexen.html
Source: Handicap International
DPI Ratification and Implementation Toolkits
http://www.icrpd.net/
Source: Disabled Peoples’ International
A Guide to the UN Disability Convention
http://www.equalityhumanrights.com/human-rights/human-rights-practical-guidance/a-guide-to-the-un-disability-convention/
Source: Equality and Human Rights Commission - Britain
A Community for All: Implementing Article 19
http://www.soros.org/initiatives/health/focus/mhi/articles_publications/publications/community-for-all-20111202/community-for-all-guide-20111202.pdf
Source: Open Society
CRPD Toolkit for Children http://www.unicef.org/publications/files/Its_About_Ability_final_.pdf
Source: UNICEF
Other Resources
Other resources include reports on CRPD and development, how the CRPD addresses children’s issues, and additional materials to guide your understanding of the Convention.
UNCRPD: a call for action on poverty, discrimination and lack of access
http://www.lcdsouthasia.org/callforaction/welcome.htm
Source: Leonard Cheshire Disability & UN Economic Commission for Africa
Guide to Promoting Children’s Rights Using the CRPD
http://www.crin.org/docs/See_me_hear_final.pdf
Source: Save the Children
Human Rights. Yes - Human Rights and Disability Manual (Multiple Contributors)
http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/edumat/hreduseries/HR-YES/contents.html
Source: University of Minnesota Human Rights Resource Center
International Sign Language Discussion of the Importance of the CRPD to People who are Deaf http://www.h3.tv/wfd-2011/liisa-kauppinen/
Source: H3.tv - Broadcasting in Sign Language
Report on Inclusive Development and the CRPD
http://hpod.pmhclients.com/pdf/lord-inclusive-development.pdf
Source: International Disability and Development Consortium
Video on CRPD for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LibzYRqfMR4&feature=player_embedded
Source: Board Resource Center
