America & The Convention for The Rights of Persons with Disabilities

The Convention for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities was recently ratified at the United Nations on March 30th 2007. Yet the glaring abscence on the United States to sign the convention has not gone unoticed. This has been in my view one the great blunders of American policy since its inception. How can the host country of the UN not sign something that promotes human rights, equal opportunity and abolish laws that perpetuate discrimination? It has many people within the American disability community scratching there heads and asking the proverbal question - why? This has been confounding me for weeks because I have no logical answer. It makes me incredibly upset that a country that prides itself on the very values the Convention espouses does not acknowledge it's value by signing is just astounding.

The disability community in the United States should be irrate & lobby congress to revaluate this choice. If we as a country are going to be at the forefront of disability rights we must be in lock step with the rest of the world...only time will tell!