Have you forgot about my example about how the UN actually works? This is how it works. The UN General Assembly ratifies a treaty for the member governments to ratify. The member goverments pay lip service to the treaty and ratifies it, but they actually DO NOT ENFORCE IT. I used the treaty of children's rights (which is the largest minority group in the world) and Iran as an example of my point.

Another point to make. Let's say that the UN passes a human rights treaty and China ratifies it. Guess what really happens, China only paid lip service to the treaty and still violates human rights. (As many people know, China has the worst human rights record.) When the International Olympic Commission picked Beijing as 2008 Summer Olympics host in the hope of improving human rights, but the human rights were not improved. Protests were restricted, censorship still exist, and before the structures were being built, the government made the people who lived there to move so that they could tear down the homes and build the structures.

Reform of the current laws would be a better idea, rather than trying to get the UN to ratify a treaty declaring autistics as a minority group, because in reality, the treaty DOES NOT GET ENFORCED. For the reforms, the United States (my country) have been making some efforts, especially on the area of providing services. Illinois (my home state) recently passed a bill stating that insurance companies should help pay for autism services and it becomes law if Blagojevich sign it or it automatically becomes law in 60 business days. President-elect Barack Obama have a plan for autism and his plan is community based. Here is a link of the Obama autism plan. http://www.barackobama.com/pdf/AutismSpe...orders.pdf