The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR)
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) was the first document to explain basic rights that belong to all people everywhere. It is the base that later tools for specific disabilities are built on.
Key point
The UDHR does not name disability as a protected characteristic. People with disabilities are included in its general human rights rules, but not mentioning them clearly left a gap that later agreements, especially the CRPD, were made to fix.