Are the UN Disability Committee’s decisions binding?

The UN Disability Committee’s decisions are not legally binding. This means that a country does not have to do what the UN Disability Committee has asked them to do. But, if a country has signed a treaty then it should do what the UN Disability Committee suggests unless it has a very good reason not to.

There are steps in place to check if countries have put the UN Disability Committee’s recommendations into action. These are known as follow-up procedures. The Committee assumes that if a country has agreed to the CRPD-OP it will accept its findings and recommendations when an abuse of human rights has happened, and do its best to sort out the problem so that it won’t happen again.