Rights Of Persons

Author : Ilias Bantekas,Michael Ashley Stein,Dimitris Anastasiou
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1460 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780192538680

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The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities by Ilias Bantekas,Michael Ashley Stein,Dimitris Anastasiou Pdf

This treatise is a detailed article-by-article examination of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Each article of the CRPD contains a methodical analysis of the preparatory works, followed by an exhaustive examination of the contents of each article based on case law and concluding observations from the CRPD Committee, judgments from national and international courts and tribunals, pertinent UN and other reports, the key literature on the article under review. The volume features commentary from a broad range of scholars across a variety of disciplines in order to provide a comprehensive study of the legal, psychological, education, sociological, and other aspects of the CPRD. This encyclopaedic commentary on the CRPD effectively covers all the issues arising from international disability law and practice, and will be an ideal resource for all working in the field.

Author : Melvyn Freeman,Soumitra Pathare,World Health Organization
Publisher : World Health Organization
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Law
ISBN : 924156282X

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WHO Resource Book on Mental Health, Human Rights and Legislation by Melvyn Freeman,Soumitra Pathare,World Health Organization Pdf

This publication highlights key issues and principles to be considered in the drafting, adoption and implementation of mental health legislation and best practice in mental health services. It contains examples of diverse experiences and practices, as well as extracts of laws and other legal documents from a range of different countries, and a checklist of key policy components. Three main elements of effective mental health legislation are identified, relating to context, content and process.

Author : Valentina Della Fina,Rachele Cera,Giuseppe Palmisano
Publisher : Springer
Page : 769 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-20
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783319437903

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The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities by Valentina Della Fina,Rachele Cera,Giuseppe Palmisano Pdf

This Commentary provides the first comprehensive legal article-by-article analysis of the provisions of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). The Convention is the key international human rights instrument exclusively devoted to persons with disabilities and the centerpiece of international efforts to address inequalities and barriers they encounter to the full enjoyment of human rights. The book discusses the Convention’s position within existing international human rights law and within the framework of the United Nations measures to protect the rights of people with disabilities. Starting with the background of all the Convention’s articles, including the travaux préparatoires, this Commentary examines each provision’s substance and interpretation, and explores the significance of each right, its legal scope and relationship with other international legal norms and principles. A unique contribution also analyzes the Optional Protocol to the Convention. In addition to enriching academic studies of international human rights law, the book provides insights into the practical operation of the Convention’s provisions by assessing the practice of the CRPD Committee, the activities of relevant international and regional human rights bodies in enforcing the rights of persons with disabilities and the contracting parties’ implementation practices. Relevant European Court of Human Rights, the Court of Justice of the European Union and, if appropriate, other regional jurisdictions’ case law, as well as the jurisprudence of domestic courts, are taken into consideration. Contributions from leading scholars and international experts make this book an indispensable resource for lawyers, academics, students, journalists, international organizations, NGOs and other stakeholders wanting to better understand the rights of people with disabilities. Furthermore, it makes a valuable contribution to appraising the impact of the Convention in the legal orders of contracting parties and to charting the way forward in the protection of the rights of persons with disabilities.

Author : Coomara Pyaneandee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-13
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780429951855

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International Disability Law by Coomara Pyaneandee Pdf

This book provides a concise guide to international disability law. It analyses the case law of the CRPD Committee and other international human rights treaty bodies, and provides commentaries on more than 50 leading cases. The author elaborates on the obligations of States Parties under the CRPD and other international treaties, while also spelling out the rights of persons with disabilities, and the different mechanisms that exist at both domestic and international levels for ensuring that those rights are respected, protected and promoted. The author also delineates the traditional differentiation between civil and political rights on the one hand, and economic, social and cultural rights on the other. He demonstrates, through analysis of the evolving case law, how the gap between these two sets of rights is gradually closing. The result is a powerful tool for political decisionmakers, academics, legal practitioners, law students, persons with disabilities and their representative organisations, human rights activists and general readers.

Author : Eilionóir Flynn
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781472418616

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Disabled Justice? by Eilionóir Flynn Pdf

Disability offers a new lens through which to view the effectiveness of access to justice, and the inclusiveness of the justice system as a whole. This book analyses the experience of people with disabilities through the entire justice system, from making a complaint, to investigation, and through the court/tribunal process. It also considers the participation of people with disabilities in a variety of roles in the justice system - as witness, defendant, complainant, plaintiff, lawyer, judge and juror. More broadly, it also critically examines the subtle barriers of access to justice which might exist in a given society - including barriers to grassroots disability advocacy, legal education and training, the right to vote and the right to stand for election which may apply to people with disabilities. The book is international and comparative in scope with a focus primarily on examples of legal practice and justice systems in common law countries. The work will be of interest to scholars working in the areas of human rights, equality and non-discrimination, disability rights activists and legal professionals who work with people with disabilities to achieve access to justice.

Author : UNICEF Staff
Publisher : UNICEF
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789280643015

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It's about Ability by UNICEF Staff Pdf

Annotation. This publication explains the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities to children. It's main purpose is to empower children, with and without disabilities, to play their part in challenging discrimination and promoting the Convention's principles.

Author : Andrew Byrnes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 45,7 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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Civil rights
ISBN : OCLC:467193920

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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights by Anonim Pdf

Author : Gauthier de Beco
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780198824503

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Disability in International Human Rights Law by Gauthier de Beco Pdf

This book examines what international human rights law has gained from the new elements in the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). It explores how the CRPD is intricately bound up with other international instruments by studying the relationship between the Convention rights and those protected by other human rights treaties, as well as the overall objectives of the UN. Using a social model lens on disability, the book shows how the Convention sheds new light on the very notion of human rights. The book provides a theoretical framework which explicitly integrates disability into international human rights law. It explains how the CRPD challenges the legal subject by drawing attention to distinct forms of embodiment, before introducing the idea of the 'dis-abled subject', which stems from a recognition that all individuals encounter disability-related issues during their lives. The book also shows how to apply this theoretical framework to several rights and highlights the consequences for the implementation of human rights treaties as a whole. It builds upon the literature of disability studies and legal and political theory, as well as drawing upon the recommendations of treaty bodies and reports of UN agencies and disabled people's organisations. This book thereby provides an agenda-setting analysis for all human rights experts, by showing the benefits of placing disabled people at the heart of international human rights law.

Author : Ilias Bantekas,Michael Ashley Stein,Dimitris Anastasiou
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1460 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780192538697

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The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities by Ilias Bantekas,Michael Ashley Stein,Dimitris Anastasiou Pdf

This treatise is a detailed article-by-article examination of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Each article of the CRPD contains a methodical analysis of the preparatory works, followed by an exhaustive examination of the contents of each article based on case law and concluding observations from the CRPD Committee, judgments from national and international courts and tribunals, pertinent UN and other reports, the key literature on the article under review. The volume features commentary from a broad range of scholars across a variety of disciplines in order to provide a comprehensive study of the legal, psychological, education, sociological, and other aspects of the CPRD. This encyclopaedic commentary on the CRPD effectively covers all the issues arising from international disability law and practice, and will be an ideal resource for all working in the field.

Author : Theresia Degener,Yolan Koster-Dreese
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 775 pages
File Size : 44,9 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 : Lisa Waddington,Anna Lawson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 673 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780198786627

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The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Practice by Lisa Waddington,Anna Lawson Pdf

A timely examination of 'the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities', this first thorough comparative analysis contrasts the approaches of thirteen jurisdictions to reveal a legal area of growing importance.

Author : Stanley S. Herr,Lawrence Ogalthorpe Gostin,Harold Hongju Koh
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Law
ISBN : 0199264511

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The Human Rights of Persons with Intellectual Disabilities by Stanley S. Herr,Lawrence Ogalthorpe Gostin,Harold Hongju Koh Pdf

Inequality: Marcia H. Rioux

Author : Marcia H. Rioux,Lee Ann Basser Marks,Lee Ann Basser,Melinda Jones
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004189508

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Critical Perspectives on Human Rights and Disability Law by Marcia H. Rioux,Lee Ann Basser Marks,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 : United Nations. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Law
ISBN : MINN:31951D037456332

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The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities by United Nations. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights Pdf

The Training Guide is for facilitators of training courses on the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its Optional Protocol who are already familiar with the international human rights system. The Convention challenges customs and behavior based on stereotypes, prejudices, harmful practices and stigma relating to persons with disabilities, and promotes their full participation in all spheres of life. It is already applicable in 137 countries around the world. The Training Guide's methodology is interactive and promotes a participatory approach. Its modules can be used to develop tailored training courses to meet the needs of specific audiences (government officials, health professionals, civil society, employers' organizations, etc.). It is also helpful as a general information resource on the Convention and its Optional Protocol.