This paper attempts to shed the light of human rights on the concept of disability and identify emerging issues and meanings of convention on the rights of disability. The ongoing convention associates its position with the International Declaration on Human Rights developed world-wide in cold war period. In addition, draft text of Working-Group under UN Ad Hoc Committee focuses on uniqueness of human right of disability with core ideas from \'the Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights\' and \'The Covenant on Civil and Political Rights\' adopted by UN General Assembly in 1966.
In sum, the negotiation process of Working-Group and Ad Hoc Committee meeting moves around the two extreme issues of universal versus specific rights and prescriptive or enforceable treaty versus declaratory document. It takes place sometimes between developing and developed countries, GOs and NGOs, and different types of disabilitys. However, it is important to note the fact that these negotiating processes maintain efforts not to lose the spirit of convention to protect the rights deprived of for a long period of time and persons with disabilities and their organizations persist the meetings not to stop throughout the meeting.
This paper also examines the content of the Draft of the convention from preamble to the end of articles with major attention on the areas specifically related to disability. These include right to independent living, right to accessibility and right to mobility, all of which would fall into the concept of reasonable accomodation. One of the major areas left for next Committee meeting is women with disabilities.
Finally, this paper argues that such an ongoing convention will contribute to a turning point to understand disability issues from rights-based perspectives and to secure the enhancement of rights of persons with disabilities representing an evolution from welfare to rights.
Key words: International convention protection and promotion of the rights and dignity of persons with disabilities, reasonable accommodation