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Article 33 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (ratified by Poland in 2012) establishes that civil society, in particular persons with disabilities and their representative organizations, shall be involved and participate fully in the monitoring process. Their real representation and power were a subject to scrutiny by the UN Committee on the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), which prepared a general comment to article 33. In this paper, I analyse the monitoring of the Convention in Poland and ways in which persons with disabilities and their representative organizations have been involved in the process. In Poland the Convention is monitored mainly by experts and big NGOs, not without reasons and consequences. Persons with disabilities who are subject to discrimination and multiple exclusion, and therefore are in a particularly bad situation, are rarely involved in the monitoring and advocacy.

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