From Australia ... from the USA ... from India ... from New Zealand ... from Fiji ... from the Philippines ...

Writers and bloggers from around the world joined together to help celebrate and promote the first legally binding international human rights instrument to protect the rights of people with disabilities -- the international disability rights treaty, called the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD).

They celebrated by writing blog posts for the RatifyNow CRPD Blog Swarm 2008, which can now be read at http://ratifynow.org/2008/03/29/ratifynow-crpd-blog-swarm-2008/

What did they write about? Some of the topics include ...

... The story of one advocate who watched the birth of the CRPD among grassroots advocates with disabilities and others in the 1990s ... ... How the CRPD could deliver new hope for people in India with mental disabilities ... ... How the CRPD represents an evolution from the charity/medical model of disability to the social or human rights-based model ... ... How the CRPD could make travel go a little more smoothly for tourists with disabilities ... ... Why the CRPD matters for people who use personal assistance services or who are seeking the freedom to explore their own sexual expression ... ... An allegorical tale about farmers, spoons, and plows: Why the CRPD is well worth celebrating and why our work isn't done just because the CRPD is about to take full legal force ... ... And more ...

All at the RatifyNow CRPD Blog Swarm 2008, and all available by following the link to:

http://ratifynow.org/2008/03/29/ratifynow-crpd-blog-swarm-2008/

Celebrate and learn about the CRPD through the RatifyNow CRPD Blog Swarm 2008.

Then invite other people to do the same. Please circulate this notice or post it at your blog or web site -- with, of course, a link to the blog swarm at

http://ratifynow.org/2008/03/29/ratifynow-crpd-blog-swarm-2008/