The CRPD establishes a Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. It is currently composed of 18 independent experts. The Committee’s main function is to review periodic reports submitted by States Parties. It also receives and examines individual communications against State Parties to the Optional Protocol to the CRPD. The Committee meets two times a year in Geneva, Switzerland for a period of one week each session.
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Individual Membership
An Individual Member of the WFD contributes to organisation's daily work which deals with supporting and strengthening deaf associations, organizing human rights trainings, advancing deaf people's rights in the United Nations human rights system, spreading information on the Convention on the rights of persons with disabilities(CRPD), producing material in sign language and much more.
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