Report: Soodh
Maldives has ratified the Vienna Conventions on Diplomatic Relations and the Convention on People with Disabilities.
The Convention on People with Disabilities was signed by Abdulla Shahid Minister of Foreign Affairs at a meeting held at UN Headquarters. The convention was signed at a meeting at the treaty section of the UN and was attended by the president of that section Miss Ann Beth Rose and Under Secretary General of United Nations Mr. Nicholas Michael. After the signing Minister Shahid handed the declaration by the government of Maldives which states the government’s participation of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.
The Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations is an international treaty on diplomatic intercourse and the privileges and immunities of a diplomatic mission. The Convention was adopted on April 18, 1961 by the United Nations Conference on Diplomatic Intercourse and Immunities held in Vienna, Austria, from March 2 to April 14.
The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its Optional Protocol was adopted on 13 December 2006 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, and was opened for signature on 30 March 2007. So far there are 102 signatories to the convention.
The Convention is intended as a human rights instrument with an explicit, social development dimension. It adopts a broad categorization of persons with disabilities and reaffirms that all persons with all types of disabilities must enjoy all human rights and fundamental freedoms. It clarifies and qualifies how all categories of rights apply to persons with disabilities and identifies areas where adaptations have to be made for persons with disabilities to effectively exercise their rights and areas where their rights have been violated, and where protection of rights must be reinforced.
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