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[**US: Senate Misses Opportunity on **Disability** Convention**](http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNGfejpg5C_MHZnb_ajA8Zbh9I15ZA&url=http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/12/04/us-senate-misses-opportunity-disability-convention-0)
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US leadership has been influential in putting **disability** rights issues on the international agenda, but the Senate vote is a big step backward. Ratifying the **disability** rights treaty would have built on the US commitment to the values embodied in the **...**
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