The Disabled Child's Participation Rights

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is the only UN treaty to date in which the people who are its target, that is disabled people, were actively involved in its drafting and the only one which requires the active participation of disabled people in its implementation.

This does not, of course, automatically guarantee the direct participation of all disabled people.

This is especially so for children with disabilities, whose status as legal minors may inhibit them from participating in decisions affecting their lives.