Module 3

The Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Persons with Disabilities
(CEDDIS) takes a rights-based approach to all persons, particularly children.
Choose one;
True
False

Periodic reports provide a way to promote compliance with the obligations of States parties under the
Convention, and a means by which the government, national human rights institutions and social
organizations can assess the degree to which the human rights of persons with disabilities are being
respected.
Choose one;
True
False

Article 33 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities provides for the establishment or
strengthening of a mechanism to ensure the effective implementation of provisions related to the
realization of the rights of persons with disabilities.
Choose one;
True
False

The promotion, protection and supervision activities are carried out by one or more of the mechanisms
set forth in Article 33, paragraph 2.
Choose one;
True
False

The Committee on the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities has issued seven General
Comments.
Choose one;
True
False

Civil society organizations are the mechanism for implementing the CRPD at the national level in
Mexico.
Choose one;
True
False

It is the obligation of human rights institutions to provide timely follow-up on the work carried out to
ensure that both the implementation and monitoring of the CRPD are carried out in accordance with the
spirit of the human rights model.
Choose one;
True
False

The supervision and monitoring mechanism of the CRPD in Mexico are the public human rights defense
and protection agencies.
Choose one;
True
False

States that have ratified the Convention shall meet regularly in a Conference of States Parties to consider
matters relating to the implementation of the CRPD.
Choose one;
True
False

Only the independent expert committees established under the UN CRPD contribute to the monitoring of
the rights of persons with disabilities.
Choose one;
True
False

States that have ratified the Convention shall meet regularly in a Conference of States Parties to consider
matters relating to the implementation of the CRPD.
Choose one;

True
False

Periodic reports provide a way to promote compliance with the obligations of States parties under the
Convention, and a means for government, national human rights institutions and social organizations to
assess the degree to which the human rights of persons with disabilities are being respected.
Choose one;

True
False

The Committee on the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities has issued seven General
Comments.
Choose one;

True
False

Civil society organizations are the mechanism for implementing the CRPD at the national level in
Mexico.
Choose one;

True
False

Article 33 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities provides for the establishment or
strengthening of a mechanism to ensure the effective implementation of provisions related to the
realization of the rights of persons with disabilities.
Choose one;

True
False
Only the independent expert committees established under the UN CRPD contribute to the monitoring of
the rights of persons with disabilities.
Choose one;

True
False

The promotion, protection and supervision activities are carried out by one or more of the mechanisms
set forth in Article 33, paragraph 2.
Choose one;

True
False

It is the obligation of human rights institutions to provide timely follow-up on the work carried out to
ensure that both the implementation and monitoring of the CRPD are carried out in accordance with the
spirit of the human rights model.
Choose one;

True
False

The Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Persons with Disabilities
(CEDDIS) takes a rights-based approach to all persons, particularly children.
Choose one;

True
False

The supervision and monitoring mechanism of the CRPD in Mexico are the public human rights defense
and protection agencies.
Choose one;

True
False

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The provision for civil society, and in particular persons with disabilities and their representative
organizations, to be fully integrated and involved in the monitoring process is provided for in the
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, in Article:

Select one:
a. 33, numeral 3.
b. 25, paragraph 4.
c. 31, paragraph a.
d. 27, section I.
In Mexico, the function of promoting, protecting and supervising the implementation of the CRPD is
carried out by...

Select one:
a. Public human rights organizations.
b. The Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
c. The private sector.
d. Regional human rights organizations.

In accordance with the presentation of Mexico's initial report submitted in 2011, the Committee issued
the respective concluding observations in...

Select one:
a. April 2015.
b. June 2013.
c. October 2014.
d. March 2012.

It mentions two of the General Comments issued so far by the Committee on the Rights of Persons with
Disabilities.

Select one:
a. Equal recognition before the law and the right to live independently and to be included in the community.
b. Employment and legal certainty.
c. Access to cultural rights and to be taken into account in census and statistical matters.
d. Right to health and right to an adequate standard of living and social protection.

It is a treaty body composed of up to 18 independent experts, whose purpose is to monitor compliance

with the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the States Parties.
Select one:
a. Follow-up mechanism of the Convention.
b. Mechanism for the implementation of the Convention.
c. Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
d. Coordination mechanism for the implementation of the Convention.

This is the article of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which refers to
implementation and monitoring mechanisms.

Select one:
a. 35
b. 34
c. 36
d. 33

It has the obligation to apply the precepts derived from the CRPD through focal points established at
various orders and levels, with a coordination mechanism that ensures the adequate implementation of
policies and actions on disability.

Select one:
a. Social organizations.
b. Government.
c. Companies.
d. Human rights organizations.

The twin-track approach that emerges from the Convention consists in...

Select one:
a. Undertake welfare policies and actions for people with disabilities living in poverty, and increase taxes for
those people with disabilities with high purchasing power, in order to distribute wealth appropriately.
b. In the mainstreaming of the disability perspective in the formulation of policies, and its focus on the cases of
specific groups of people with disabilities in a more disadvantaged situation, caused by the confluence of more
than one vulnerability factor .
c. To ensure the right to live independently for people with functional disabilities, and to create residences for
those with greater difficulties, in order to guarantee them comprehensive and quality care.
d. To focus efforts on the realization of economic, social and cultural rights primarily, and to materialize civil
and political rights once structural and policy modifications are in place.

As of January 2019, the Committee had issued this number of General Observations.
Select one:
a. 7
b. 4
c. 9
d. 5

Their participation is widely promoted and reinforced by the CRPD, so they should be involved and
participate in all convention monitoring processes.

Select one:
a. Government.
b. Social organizations.
c. Human rights organizations.
d. Private sector.

The Convention's monitoring framework should include at least one mechanism that has been
established and operates in accordance with the...

Select one:
a. The Paris Principles.
b. The Declaration of Human Rights.
c. The Constitution of each country.
d. The resolutions of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.

What is the number of entities that make up the monitoring mechanism of the Convention on the Rights
of Persons with Disabilities?

Select one:
a. This is determined by each country.
b. One.
c. Three.
d. According to the population with disabilities.
These are concerns and recommendations of the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities,
issued after reviewing the information submitted by the governments of the States Parties.

Select one:
a. General comments.
b. Special reports.
c. Subsequent reports.
d. Concluding remarks.

This is the power exercised by the Committee when it receives reliable information indicating serious or
systematic violations of the provisions of the Convention by a State party.

Select one:
a. Authority to issue opinions.
b. Power to initiate proceedings for personal communications.
c. Power to issue General Comments.
d. Power to initiate an investigation procedure.

They are a means for the government, national human rights institutions and social organizations to
assess the degree of respect for human rights.
Select one:
a. Alternative reports.
b. Special reports.
c. Concluding remarks.
d. Periodic reports.

It is the body in charge of preparing periodic reports on the implementation of the Convention on the
Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Mexico.

Select one:
a. Each of the Federal Entities.
b. The Federal Executive.
c. The National Council for the Prevention of Discrimination.
d. The National Human Rights Commission.

These are documents or declarations with legal force issued by the treaty bodies for the purpose of
developing or clarifying specific provisions contained in the treaty itself.
Select one:
a. Periodic reports.
b. Alternative reports.
c. Concluding remarks.
d. General remarks.

Approved on September 25, 2015 by resolution 70/1 and adopted by the 193 member states of the United
Nations, it addresses 17 goals with 169 targets of an integrated and indivisible nature covering the
economic, social and environmental spheres.

Select one:
a. Human rights indicators.
b. Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
c. 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
d. Convention on the Rights of the Elderly.

This procedure allows individuals and groups of individuals from a State party that has ratified the
Optional Protocol to submit a complaint to the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities,
alleging that the State has violated one of its obligations under the Convention.

Select one:
a. Personal communications procedure.
b. Investigation procedure.
c. Periodic reporting procedure.
d. Alternative reporting procedure.

The Convention promotes their active participation in all the processes that are carried out, both for its
implementation and for the supervision of such implementation.

Select one:
a. Authorities of the three levels of government.
b. Human rights organizations.
c. Human rights defenders.
d. People with disabilities.