This research on persons with disabilities perspective on disability rights, gives some insight as to the knowledge, awareness and attitude persons with disabilities had towards their own rights and carry out a training to build capacity. This is a descriptive crosssectional study using quantitative data collection method in the form of a semistructured questionnaire. Only 16.67% of the participants claimed to have heard about the Discrimination Against Persons with Disabilities (Prohibition) act, 2018, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 2006 and the Rivers State Persons with Disability Welfare (Enhancement) Law, 2012 but after training, this increased. This was the trend throughout the study. For persons with disabilities to truly be able to advocate for their own rights, a sustained building of their capacities is key to capitalising on opportunities for advancing disability rights and for strategic advocacy. The state and other states in the South-South Region will gain from more of these capacity building activities, which will in turn promote disability rights.