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Has your country accepted the CRPD?

People with disabilities
Equality, non-discrimination and racism
Support for human rights systems and defenders
Inter-governmental human rights systems

The UN convention has now been signed by 164 countries worldwide, and ratified (made legally binding) by 180. 

94 countries have signed the Optional Protocol to the Convention, and 95 have ratified it.

The following 27 EU Member States have ratified the CRPD, wih 22 also ratifying the Optional Protocol:

  • Austria (ratified 2008, including the Optional Protocol)
  • Belgium (ratified 2009, including the Optional Protocol)
  • Bulgaria (ratified 2012)
  • Croatia (ratified 2007, including the Optional Protocol)
  • Cyprus (ratified 2011, including the Optional Protocol)
  • Czechia Republic (ratified 2009)
  • Denmark (ratified 2009, including the Optional Protocol)
  • Estonia (ratified 2012, including the Optional Protocol)
  • Finland (ratified 2016, including the Optional Protocol)
  • France (ratified 2010, including the Optional Protocol)
  • Germany (ratified 2009, including the Optional Protocol)
  • Greece (ratified 2012, including the Optional Protocol)
  • Hungary (ratified 2007, including the Optional Protocol)
  • Ireland (ratified 2018)
  • Italy (ratified 2009, including the Optional Protocol)
  • Latvia (ratified 2010, including the Optional Protocol)
  • Lithuania (ratified 2010, including the Optional Protocol)
  • Luxembourg (ratified 2011, including the Optional Protocol)
  • Malta (ratified 2012, including the Optional Protocol)
  • Netherlands (ratified 2016)
  • Poland (ratified 2012)
  • Portugal (ratified 2009, including the Optional Protocol)
  • Romania (ratified 2011)
  • Slovakia (ratified 2010, including the Optional Protocol)
  • Slovenia (ratified 2008, including the Optional Protocol)
  • Spain (ratified 2007, including the Optional Protocol)
  • Sweden (ratified 2008, including the Optional Protocol)

The EU also formally acceded to the Convention on 23 December 2010, the first legally binding core international human rights instrument to which the EU is party.
 

See the United Nations map of ratifications.