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35 Touro L. Rev. 301 (2019-2020)
Let's Try Again: Why the United States Should Ratify the United Nations Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities

handle is hein.journals/touro35 and id is 309 raw text is: LET'S TRY AGAIN: WHY THE UNITED STATES SHOULD RATIFY THE UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES Arlene S. Kanter* INTRODUCTION The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (hereinafter CRPD) was adopted by the United Nations in 2006 and entered into force in 2008.' Since then, 177 countries have ratified it, but not the United States. This is not the first time that the United States has failed to ratify a human rights treaty. The United States is one of only a few countries that has not ratified the 1979 Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (hereinafter CEDAW) and the only country that has not ratified the 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child (hereinafter CRC).2 Moreover, of the nine core human rights treaties that the United Nations has adopted, the United States has ratified only three.3 Based * Arlene S. Kanter is the Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor of Teaching Excellence at Syracuse University. At the College of Law, she is the Director of International Programs, and Founder and Director of the Disability Law and Policy Program. She can be contacted at kantera@law.syr.edu. I U.N. GAOR, 61st Sess., 76th plen. mtg., U.N. Res. A/RES/61/106, Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (Dec. 13, 2006), https://treaties.un.org/doc/source/docs/A -RES_61_106-E.pdf [hereinafter CRPD]. 2 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, Sept. 3, 1981, 1249 U.N.T.S. 13 (or G.A. Res. 34/180, U.N. GAOR, 34th Sess., Supp. No. 46, U.N. Doc. A/34/46 at 193 (Sept. 3, 1981)). The other jurisdictions that have not ratified the CEDAW are the Holy See, Iran, Niue, Palau, Somalia, Sudan and Tonga. See UNITED NATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS OFFICE OF THE HIGH COMMISSIONER, RATIFICATION STATUS FOR CEDAW-CONVENTION ON THE ELIMINATION OF ALL FORMS OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN, http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_1ayouts/TreatyBodyExtemal/Treaty.aspx (last visited Feb. 19, 2019) [hereinafter CEDAW RATIFICATION LIsT]. Convention on the Rights of the Child, Nov. 20, 1989, 1577 U.N.T.S. 3 (or G.A. Res. 44/25, U.N. GAOR, 44th Sess., 61st plen. mtg., U.N. Doc. A/44/49 at 16 (Nov. 20, 1989)). For the list of countries that have ratified the CRC, see https://treaties.un.org/pages/ViewDetails.aspx?src=IND&mtdsg-no=IV -1 1&chapter=4&lang-en (last visited Mar. 10, 2019). 1 The United States ratified the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination in 1994, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights in 301

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