WhereDaily News: Kessler Foundation Hosts Senator Menendez's Panel Discussion on Disability Rights Treaty
WEST ORANGE, NJ--(Marketwired - Oct 28, 2013) - On October 24, Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, convened leading disability advocates -- including injured former Rutgers football player Eric LeGrand -- to discuss strategies to ratify the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). The discussion was hosted at Kessler's West Orange campus. More than 35 representatives from a wide range of state and national disability organizations voiced their support of the Senator's efforts to garner the votes needed for ratification.