Comoros ratifies CRPD (total: 165)

20 June 2016

The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) marked a major milestone in the effort to promote, protect and ensure the full and equal enjoyment of all human rights of persons with disabilities.Comoros ratified the Convention and the Optional Protocol on 17 June 2016, bringing the total number of States Parties to the CRPD to 165.

Working towards universal ratification and implementation of the CRPD:

Ratifications/Accessions: 165
Signatories*: 160

Optional Protocol
Ratification/Accessions: 89
Signatories*: 92

(* Signatories include countries or regional integration organizations that have signed the Convention and its Optional Protocol)

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