Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. It is indeed a great honour for me to speak at this
International Child Rights Forum at Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul Korea. In particular,
may I warmly thank Professor Yanghee Lee and her colleagues for organising this superb
seminar. Professor Yanghee Lee came to know my wife and I when Yanghee and I were
Chairpersons respectively of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child (which I
shall call the CRC Committee), and of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons
with Disabilities (which I shall call the CRPD Committee). I have learned so much from
Professor Lee, and this makes it an added pleasure to speak here today.
In this presentation, I will examine the human rights of children with disabilities in the
three following segments. First, I will consider the United Nations Convention on the Rights
of Persons with Disabilities (which I shall call the CRPD). I will unpack its articles which are
relelvant to children to illustrate its protective features and show how it enshrines the human
rights of children with disabilities.