A message from The ARC of Middlesex County
The failure of the U.S. Senate to ratify The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) last year means that we have to garner more support for this important treaty this year.
Over the last year, The Arc has been working with numerous disability advocacy groups to garner support for ratifying the treaty, which will promote, protect and ensure the full and equal enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms by all persons with disabilities.
This week, in honor of the anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, disability groups are organizing events in Washington, DC to draw attention to this important treaty. Opponents of the treaty continue to work to stop ratification, and we need advocates like you to stand up to them. We need more U.S. Senators to support this treaty, so we need your help!
We need you to call your Senators and ask them to support the CRPD and urge their leaders to bring it up for hearings and a vote.
It is important for you to contact your Senators today and let them know that you support CRPD. We need every U.S. Senator to be contacted and to know that the disability community is leading the movement for U.S. ratification of this international disability treaty and our voice matters.
Tell your Senators:
- I am a person with a disability (I am a family member/friend/supporter of a person with a disability) and I want you to support CRPD!
- This treaty is very important to the U.S. disability community! Following U.S. ratification of the treaty, U.S. leadership will help raise accessibility around the world, directly helping Americans with disabilities who live, work, or travel abroad.
- The CRPD will not cost the federal government any additional funds.
- The CRPD has been reviewed by both Republican and Democratic Attorneys General and by past Counsel to Presidents. They confirm that it does not threaten the sovereignty of the U.S. nor does it require any new legislation to comply with the treaty.
- This treaty is good for American business and for the world. It will allow us to bring our knowledge and our products that help make society accessible to the whole world.
- Failure to ratify the CRPD is embarrassing for the US. We are the leaders in disability rights and we need to show the world that we support those rights for all individuals with disabilities around the globe.
