On December 13, 2006, the
United Nations General Assembly adopted the first ever UN convention
to address the human rights of people with disabilities. The Convention
on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) is the first
core international human rights convention (also called a “treaty”)
of the twenty-first century ... read
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Under Arizona’s
new minimum-wage law, some of the lowest-paid workers – including
those who made just pennies per hour a few days ago – are
to get a raise this week. But some groups don’t want the
wage hike to apply to people with disabilities ...
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more about wage >
