Global: UN action on rights for disabled faces snags

A UN convention that would protect the rights of the world's disabled has made progress but still faces difficulties and lacks U.S. support, UN and American officials said. The leadership of the committee drafting the treaty "was pleased by the progress on a number of key issues" but 150 proposed amendments received over the weekend "could jeopardize reaching an outcome," Thomas Schindlmayr of the UN Secretariat helping with the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities said Monday (August 21).