The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities was adopted by the General Assembly by its resolution 61/106 of 13 December 2006. It came into force on 3 May 2008 upon the 20th ratification.

The next COP30, Conference of Parties, hosted by the United Nations, is set to take place in Belém, Brazil. However, panelists at the 2025 Society of Environmental Journalists conference in Tempe ...

Deputy Secretary-General's remarks to the Opening of the Eighteenth Session of the Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities [as delivered] ...

Nov 8 (Reuters) - This year's U.N. climate conference in Baku, Azerbaijan, marks the world's 29th leadership gathering to confront global warming since the first "Conference of the Parties" in 1995.

Sponsored by the Office of Sustainability, 14 student fellows from the University of Connecticut attended the United Nations 29 th annual Climate Change Conference of Parties, hosted this November in ...

Conference to Consider and Adopt Proposed Amendments to the Convention on Supplementary Compensation for Nuclear Damage The Depositary, after consultations with the Contracting Parties, may convene a ...

Yale representatives recently arrived in Belém, Brazil, for the 30th annual United Nations climate change conference, also called the 30th Conference of the Parties, or COP30. COP30 began last Monday ...

MSU Associate Vice President and Professor Narcisa Pricope (second row, center in white coat) led an international team of scientists in a study on aridification, recently published in Nature Water.