Article 30 - Participation in Cultural Life, Recreation, Leisure and Sport

Article 30 provides for the right of persons with disabilities to the cultural life and their participation in recreational, leisure, tourism and sports activities in a position of equality with others. We are dealing with another key norm of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. This paper examines the content of the provision and in particular the different typologies of obligations on States Parties. The analysis has been conducted in the light of the travaux préparatoires of the Convention and in the framework of the relevant international human rights instruments (included the practice of UN human rights treaty bodies).