Article 2 [Definitions]

Article 2 defines five key terms used repeatedly throughout the Convention which have very specific meanings and implications for implementation of CRPD rights: 'communication', 'language', 'discrimination on the ground of disability', 'reasonable accommodation' and 'universal design'. Some of such definitions are of illustrative (such as communication and language) or technical (universal design) nature and, therefore, they require to States adaptation only in their practices and not at normative level. On contrary, the definitions of discrimination on the ground of disability and reasonable accommodation address qualifying issues of the CRPD for which domestic legal systems have to adjust in order to be in line with the Convention.