I am saying that education is a start for better understanding among the people and with the people being educated, the better chance of a "Declaration of Rights of People with Autism" will be ratified by the governments. As for the UN, it is more complex because the UN could pass treaties in the General Assembly with the member governments ratify those treaties and even if the government does ratify that treaty, it may not actually enforce it.

Let's take the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) and the country of Iran for example. UNCRC focus on children's rights and in Article 37(A), it says, "No child shall be subjected to torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. Neither capital punishment nor life imprisonment without possibility of release shall be imposed for offenses committed by persons below eighteen years of age." Iran had executions of minors before ratifying the treaty and once they ratified it, one may believe that the executions of minors have stop, but guess what, they didn't.

Getting a treaty ratified is one thing, enforcing it is another thing. Iran signed and ratified the UNCRC, but it is not enforcing it.





Here is the UN site UN Enable, which focus on people with disabilities. http://www.un.org/disabilities/