On July 24, President Barack Obama announced that the United States will sign the U.N. Convention on the Rights of Persons With Disabilities. To become international law binding on the United States, the Senate will have to ratify this convention. This will take time and outcome is uncertain. But Obama's first step is an event of enormous significance for at least three reasons.
First, previous administrations - both Republican and Democrat - have largely removed the U.S. from par...
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