{"id":176476,"date":"2024-07-13T02:12:57","date_gmt":"2024-07-13T00:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-submission-to-the-un-committee-on-the-rights-of-persons-with-disabilities\/"},"modified":"2024-07-13T02:12:57","modified_gmt":"2024-07-13T00:12:57","slug":"ghana-submission-to-the-un-committee-on-the-rights-of-persons-with-disabilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-submission-to-the-un-committee-on-the-rights-of-persons-with-disabilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Submission to the UN Committee On the Rights of Persons With Disabilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"89\">We write in advance of the 31st session of the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (&#8220;the Committee&#8221;) and its review of Ghana.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2024\/07\/12\/ghana-submission-un-committee-rights-persons-disabilities#_ftn1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[1]<\/a> This submission highlights areas of concern that Human Rights Watch hopes will inform the Committee&#8217;s consideration of Ghana&#8217;s compliance with the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). It focuses on the shackling of persons with psychosocial disabilities and relates to Ghana&#8217;s overall obligations towards the CRPD, including&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202407120473.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We write in advance of the 31st session of the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (&#8220;the Committee&#8221;) and its review of Ghana.[1] This submission highlights areas of concern that Human Rights Watch hopes will inform the Committee&#8217;s consideration of Ghana&#8217;s compliance with the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":176477,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,5857,12743,4508,4509,257,10183,5100,254,11989],"class_list":["post-176476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-committee","tag-disabilities","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-news","tag-persons","tag-rights","tag-south-africa-today","tag-submission"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}