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The Disabilities Convention: Human Rights of Persons with Disabilities or Disability Rights?
Human Rights Quarterly, 2008The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is about more than making sure that existing human rights are applied to persons with disability. It also subtly reformulates and extends existing human rights to take into account the specific rights experience of persons with disability. In fact, the argument can be made that the Convention
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Migraine and Disability Rights
Continuum, 2012Patients with migraine often have substantial disabilities. US federal law provides protections for disabled Americans. This discussion provides information regarding the disability rights of patients with transformed migraine.
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Human Rights, Disability, and Mindfulness
Advances in Neurodevelopmental Disorders, 2023ObjectiveThe Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) has identified and articulated the rights of people with disabilities, mandating how these rights should be upheld and protected by countries. The objective of this article is to explore how these rights can be translated into action for people with intellectual and developmental
Yoon-Suk Hwang +2 more
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Human Rights & Human Welfare, 2007
Disability rights are often ignored in discussions of human rights. Recently, however, scholars and activists have begun producing a body of literature on disability rights in Russia and the former Soviet bloc states. Much of the literature focuses on children’s rights with an emphasis on the right to inclusive education.
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Disability rights are often ignored in discussions of human rights. Recently, however, scholars and activists have begun producing a body of literature on disability rights in Russia and the former Soviet bloc states. Much of the literature focuses on children’s rights with an emphasis on the right to inclusive education.
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Disability Rights and Wrongs in Uganda
Current History, 2022Uganda’s disability story is justly celebrated. The country has ratified some of the most progressive disability laws and policies in the world, and it is home to a robust disability activist movement. Disability is also highly visible in mass media and public life.
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On a Bioethical Challenge to Disability Rights
Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 2007Tensions exist between the disability rights movement and the work of many bioethicists. These reveal themselves in a major recent book on bioethics and genetics, From Chance to Choice: Genetics and Justice. This book defends certain genetic policies against criticisms from disability rights advocates, in part by arguing that it is possible to accept ...
Ron, Amundson, Shari, Tresky
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Understanding Disability and Disability Rights in Nigeria
Global Journal of Politics and Law Research, 2023This paper aimed at conceptualizing disability within the law, culture and society in Nigeria. It attempted to compare the definitions of disability and provide a unique definition of disability based on the Nigerian experience. This theoretical paper explored the types and models of disability and related it to the Nigerian society.
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Rights Are Still Right: The Case for Disability Rights
The Hastings Center Report, 2004A growing philosophical backlash suggests that rights may not be right. For those of us within whose earlier lifetimes patients had no rights, and women only, sharply curtailed ones, this prospect is worrisome. Of even more concern to me, as a person with a disability, is the related thought that we should abandon extending rights to the disabled ...
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Disability, Disability Rights, and IR
Abstract The study of disability and disability rights in international relations (IR) reflects an absent presence. Although disability is often created through wars, natural disasters, situations of poverty, among other factors, the study of IR has paid little attention to the presence of disability, the impacts of global governance ...openaire +1 more source