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A smiling African boy with a disability leans against a wall beside other children.
Photo: Maud Vereecke
A new international human rights treaty, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) was adopted by the United Nations in 2006. The Convention affirms that people with disabilities have the same human rights as all other people.

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