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Disability in a Human Rights Context
Laws, 2016 The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) is a modern human rights treaty with innovative components. It impacts on disability studies as well as human rights law.
Theresia Degener
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Vulnerable Rights: The Incomplete Realization of Disability Social Rights in France
Social Sciences, 2018 While disabled people embody a classical figure of vulnerability, this paper shifts the focus of attention to the vulnerability of their social rights. I address this question normatively and empirically.
Anne Revillard
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Reflections on the Implementation of an Ongoing Inclusive Research Project
Social Sciences, 2022 This reflective piece is co-authored by four members of an inclusive research team, who have been working on a project that aims to create an online resource with a video curriculum vitae of individuals with intellectual disability to showcase their ...
Isabel Bonello +3 more
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Disability and COVID-19: ensuring no one is left behind
Archives of Public Health, 2021 The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Agenda calls for targeted attention to the needs and rights of the most vulnerable populations to ensure a life of dignity and human security for all.
Consortium “United Nations workstream on COVID-19 disability inclusive health response and recovery” +22 more
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BMC Health Services Research, 2020 Background Embedding patient accommodation need in the electronic health record (EHR) has been proposed as one means to improve health care delivery to patients with disabilities.
Nancy R. Mudrick +3 more
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DfID’s Last Stand: A Belated but Welcome Theory of Change on Mental Health and Development
Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, 2021 This article critiques the new Theory of Change (ToC) on mental health published by the UK’s Department for International Development (DfID) in the last fortnight of its existence.
Laura Davidson
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Meaningful Work and Disability: A Dignity Towards Social Inclusion
Indonesian Journal of Disability Studies, 2017 Access to employment is essential for every persons including persons with disabilities. If a meaningful work is enormously important, how does an equality framework advance this in securing access to the labour market?
Yeni Rosdianti
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South African Journal of Occupational Therapy, 2022 Introduction: Namibia signed the UNCRPD in 2007 without any reservation. The country uses a monist system prescribed in its constitution. Therefore, the UNCRPD became part of the national binding document related to disability.
Gwarega Chibaya +2 more
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An empowering dependency: exploring support for the exercise of legal capacity
Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research, 2014 The Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities specifies that people with disabilities have the right to enjoy legal capacity on an equal basis with others and an accompanying duty of states parties to provide access to support for exercising ...
Anna Arstein-Kerslake
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A Key, Not a Straitjacket: The Case for Interim Mental Health Legislation Pending Complete Prohibition of Psychiatric Coercion in Accordance with the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities [PDF]
Health and Human Rights, 2020 The practice of coercion on the basis of psychosocial disability is plainly discriminatory. This has resulted in a demand from the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (the CRPD Committee) for a paradigm shift away from the traditional ...
Laura Davidson
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