Senate takes up UN disability treaty

WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.N. treaty promoting equal rights for the disabled faced an uncertain future in the Senate Tuesday as Republicans objected to taking up an international treaty during a lame-duck session of Congress and expressed concerns about ceding authority to the United Nations.

Supporters of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which was completed in 2006, stressed that it was modeled after the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act and required no changes in U.S. law.