Dancing and tears greet book treaty for blind, by Marcus Low | Groundup
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On 22 June a treaty for the blind was heading for disaster as negotiators stalled and refused to budge on hardline positions. Three days later a negotiator stepped out of a boardroom in the Atlas Medina hotel in Marrakesh and announced to a crowd of tense and exhausted observers, “We have a text!” The tears and dancing that followed is hardly what you’d associate with the making of international law.