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Treaty on Disability Rights

In a response to the editorial “How to Do Right by the Disabled,” Stephen Freeman wrote that the U.S. ratifying the Convention on the Rights of Persons With Disabilities should not be subject to debate. Freeman, the chief executive of YAI, which provides programs for the disabled, disregarded the opposition’s claims that the treaty would infringe on American sovereignty as untrue. Read more.