Disability Human Rights And The Limits Of Humanitarianism

Author : Michael Gill,Cathy J. Schlund-Vials
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317150138

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Disability, Human Rights and the Limits of Humanitarianism by Michael Gill,Cathy J. Schlund-Vials Pdf

Disability studies scholars and activists have long criticized and critiqued so-termed ’charitable’ approaches to disability where the capitalization of individual disabled bodies to invoke pity are historically, socially, and politically circumscribed by paternalism. Disabled individuals have long advocated for civil and human rights in various locations throughout the globe, yet contemporary human rights discourses problematically co-opt disabled bodies as ’evidence’ of harms done under capitalism, war, and other forms of conflict, while humanitarian non-governmental organizations often use disabled bodies to generate resources for their humanitarian projects. It is the connection between civil rights and human rights, and this concomitant relationship between national and global, which foregrounds this groundbreaking book’s contention that disability studies productively challenge such human rights paradigms, which troublingly eschew disability rights in favor of exclusionary humanitarianism. It relocates disability from the margins to the center of academic and activist debates over the vexed relationship between human rights and humanitarianism. These considerations thus productively destabilize able-bodied assumptions that undergird definitions of personhood in civil rights and human rights by highlighting intersections between disability, race, gender ethnicity, and sexuality as a way to interrogate the possibilities (and limitations) of human rights as a politicized regime.

Author : Cathy J. Schlund-Vials
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Human rights
ISBN : 1315577402

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Disability, Human Rights and the Limits of Humanitarianism by Cathy J. Schlund-Vials Pdf

Author : Marcia H. Rioux,Lee Ann Basser,Melinda Jones
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-23
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004189584

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Critical Perspectives on Human Rights and Disability Law by Marcia H. Rioux,Lee Ann Basser,Melinda Jones Pdf

This book examines the changing relationship between disability and the law, addressing the intersection of human rights principles, human rights law, domestic law and the experience of people with disabilities. Drawn from the global experience of scholars and activists in a number of jurisdictions and legal systems, the core human rights principles of dignity, equality and inclusion and participation are analyzed within a framework of critical disability legal scholarship.

Author : Michael Gill,Cathy J. Schlund-Vials
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317150121

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Disability, Human Rights and the Limits of Humanitarianism by Michael Gill,Cathy J. Schlund-Vials Pdf

Disability studies scholars and activists have long criticized and critiqued so-termed ’charitable’ approaches to disability where the capitalization of individual disabled bodies to invoke pity are historically, socially, and politically circumscribed by paternalism. Disabled individuals have long advocated for civil and human rights in various locations throughout the globe, yet contemporary human rights discourses problematically co-opt disabled bodies as ’evidence’ of harms done under capitalism, war, and other forms of conflict, while humanitarian non-governmental organizations often use disabled bodies to generate resources for their humanitarian projects. It is the connection between civil rights and human rights, and this concomitant relationship between national and global, which foregrounds this groundbreaking book’s contention that disability studies productively challenge such human rights paradigms, which troublingly eschew disability rights in favor of exclusionary humanitarianism. It relocates disability from the margins to the center of academic and activist debates over the vexed relationship between human rights and humanitarianism. These considerations thus productively destabilize able-bodied assumptions that undergird definitions of personhood in civil rights and human rights by highlighting intersections between disability, race, gender ethnicity, and sexuality as a way to interrogate the possibilities (and limitations) of human rights as a politicized regime.

Author : Mary Crock,Laura Smith-Khan,Ron McCallum,Ben Saul
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781786435446

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The Legal Protection of Refugees with Disabilities by Mary Crock,Laura Smith-Khan,Ron McCallum,Ben Saul Pdf

This ground-breaking book focuses on the ‘forgotten refugees’, detailing people with disabilities who have crossed borders in search of protection from disaster or human conflict. The authors explore the intersection between one of the oldest international human rights treaties, the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, with one of the newest: the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Drawing on fieldwork in six countries hosting refugees in a variety of contexts – Malaysia, Indonesia, Pakistan, Uganda, Jordan and Turkey – the book examines how the CRPD is (or should) be changing the way that governments and aid agencies engage with and accommodate persons with disabilities in situations of displacement. The timeliness of the book is underscored by the adoption in mid-2016 of the UN Charter on Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in Humanitarian Action adopted at the World Humanitarian Summit.

Author : Alison Harris,Sue Enfield
Publisher : Oxfam Publications
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780855984854

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Disability, Equality, and Human Rights by Alison Harris,Sue Enfield Pdf

This book's basic premise is that disabled people themselves know best what their needs are and that they should be involved in the planning and delivery of relief and development initiatives. The most effective support that agencies can offer is to empower them to claim their basic human rights and their civil and legal rights. The text is based on the experience of Oxfam staff working before, during and after the crisis in Kosovo; but its principles and practical training materials can be applied far more widely. Case studies from Africa and Asia arising from the work of Action and Disability and Development (ADD) show how the values of equality, empowerment and autonomy that are promoted by the social model of disability are universal in their relevance. It suggests practical materials particularly useful to trainers working in geographically isolated areas without access to sophisticated equipment. Most activities and exercises can be adapted for use in groups of people with a wide range of impairments and educational levels.

Author : Andrew Byrnes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Law
ISBN : UCBK:C081707710

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From Exclusion to Equality by Andrew Byrnes Pdf

Parliaments and parliamentarians have a key role to play in promoting and protecting human rights. This Handbook aims to assist parliamentarians and others in efforts to realize the Convention so that persons with disabilities can achieve the transition from exclusion to equality. It seeks to raise awareness of the Convention and its provisions, promote an appreciation of disability concerns, and assist parliaments in understanding the mechanisms and frameworks needed to translate the Convention into practice. By providing examples and insights, it is hoped that the Handbook will serve as a useful tool for parliamentarians to promote and protect the rights of persons with disabilities all over the world.

Author : David Kennedy
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781400840731

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The Dark Sides of Virtue by David Kennedy Pdf

In this provocative and timely book, David Kennedy explores what can go awry when we put our humanitarian yearnings into action on a global scale--and what we can do in response. Rooted in Kennedy's own experience in numerous humanitarian efforts, the book examines campaigns for human rights, refugee protection, economic development, and for humanitarian limits to the conduct of war. It takes us from the jails of Uruguay to the corridors of the United Nations, from the founding of a non-governmental organization dedicated to the liberation of East Timor to work aboard an aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf. Kennedy shares the satisfactions of international humanitarian engagement--but also the disappointments of a faith betrayed. With humanitarianism's new power comes knowledge that even the most well-intentioned projects can create as many problems as they solve. Kennedy develops a checklist of the unforeseen consequences, blind spots, and biases of humanitarian work--from focusing too much on rules and too little on results to the ambiguities of waging war in the name of human rights. He explores the mix of altruism, self-doubt, self-congratulation, and simple disorientation that accompany efforts to bring humanitarian commitments to foreign settings. Writing for all those who wish that "globalization" could be more humane, Kennedy urges us to think and work more pragmatically. A work of unusual verve, honesty, and insight, this insider's account urges us to embrace the freedom and the responsibility that come with a deeper awareness of the dark sides of humanitarian governance.

Author : Theresia Degener,Yolan Koster-Dreese
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 775 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-18
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004479890

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Human Rights and Disabled Persons by Theresia Degener,Yolan Koster-Dreese Pdf

The United Nations' Decade of Disabled Persons has served as a time for standard setting in the field of human rights and disability, and has created the need to evaluate the relevant human rights instruments for disabled persons. This volume responds to this need by offering a collection of essays on the subject of human rights and disability, and an extensive compilation of international and regional human rights instruments, guidelines and principles which are of special relevance to disabled people. It should serve organizations of disabled people as well as governments throughout the world as a resource and as an introduction to human rights and disability. This shortcoming may be one reason for the widely prevailing notion that disability is a welfare issue rather than a human rights issue.

Author : Michael N. Barnett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108836791

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Humanitarianism and Human Rights by Michael N. Barnett Pdf

Explores the fluctuating relationship between human rights and humanitarianism and the changing nature of the politics and practices of humanity.

Author : Franziska Felder,Laura Davy,Rosemary Kayess
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030865450

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Disability Law and Human Rights by Franziska Felder,Laura Davy,Rosemary Kayess Pdf

This book, exploring the theoretical and practical implications of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), brings together an international and interdisciplinary group of leading researchers in the areas of philosophy of disability, disability law, and disability policy. It addresses both the philosophical foundations of the CRPD as well as complex contemporary legal and policy debates. With a comprehensive introduction outlining key milestones in the development and implementation of the CRPD, the book addresses the most fundamental questions the CRPD raises for the way we think about human rights, law, and disability, and how we operationalize rights in the legal and policy domains. The contributors traverse themes of personhood, equality, capacity, and intersectionality, explore the dilemmas involved in translating these concepts in practice, and reflect on the promises and limitations of the human rights project.

Author : Gauthier de Beco,Shivaun Quinlivan,Janet E. Lord
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 733 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-02
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107121188

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The Right to Inclusive Education in International Human Rights Law by Gauthier de Beco,Shivaun Quinlivan,Janet E. Lord Pdf

This volume studies the implications of the right to inclusive education in human rights law for disability law, policy and practice.

Author : Frédéric Mégret,Philip Alston
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191544774

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The United Nations and Human Rights by Frédéric Mégret,Philip Alston Pdf

The very concept of human rights implies governmental accountability. To ensure that governments are indeed held accountable for their treatment of citizens and others the United Nations has established a wide range of mechanisms to monitor compliance, and to seek to prevent as well as respond to violations. The panoply of implementation measures that the UN has taken since 1945 has resulted in a diverse and complex set of institutional arrangements, the effectiveness of which varies widely. Indeed, there is much doubt as to the effectiveness of much of the UN's human rights efforts but also about what direction it should take. Inevitable instances of politicization and the hostile, or at best ambivalent, attitude of most governments, has at times endangered the fragile progress made on the more technical fronts. At the same time, technical efforts cannot dispense with the complex politics of actualizing the promise of human rights at and through the UN. In addition to significant actual and potential problems of duplication, overlapping and inconsistent approaches, there are major problems of under-funding and insufficient expertise. The complexity of these arrangements and the difficulty in evaluating their impact makes a comprehensive guide of the type provided here all the more indispensable. These essays critically examine the functions, procedures, and performance of each of the major UN organs dealing with human rights, including the Security Council and the International Court of Justice as well as the more specialized bodies monitoring the implementation of human rights treaties. Significant attention is devoted to the considerable efforts at reforming the UN's human rights machinery, as illustrated most notably by the creation of the Human Rights Council to replace the Commission on Human Rights. The book also looks at the relationship between the various bodies and the potential for major reforms and restructuring.

Author : Carla Koppell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780197611609

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Untapped Power by Carla Koppell Pdf

The global #MeToo and #BlackLivesMatter movements as well as the push for LGBTQ+ rights are all emblematic of a growing interest in and focus on how to better embrace and capitalize on diversity. Yet these social movements exist alongside renewed efforts to constrain minority rights and stem immigration around the world. In Untapped Power, Carla Koppell has assembled a leading group of scholars, policy makers, researchers, and activists to provide a comprehensive overview for understanding and navigating these countervailing forces, so that we can build a more peaceful and inclusive world.

Author : Liv Feijen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108483483

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The Evolution of Humanitarian Protection in European Law and Practice by Liv Feijen Pdf

Humanitarian protection has evolved from an act of charity into a legal obligation not to remove certain categories of non-nationals.