Human Rights and Disabled Persons: Essays and Relevant Human Rights Instruments

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Theresia Degener, Yolan Koster-Dreese
Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1995 - 757 pagini
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 unique volume responds to this need by offering a collection of profound 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 will serve organizations of disabled people as well as governments throughout the world as a resource and as an introduction to human rights and disability. No comprehensive compilation of this kind exists, and so far commentaries on the meaning of the International Bill of Human Rights or other human rights treaties have not made reference to disabled people. This shortcoming may be one reason for the widely prevailing notion that disability is a welfare issue rather than a human rights issue.

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Introduction
3
the legal framework
9
The significance of equality and nondiscrimination for
40
EUROPEAN REGION
52
Aart Hendriks
54
Standard Rules in the disability field a new United Nations
63
The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
69
Disability and the International Covenant on Economic Social
94
UNITED NATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS DIVISION
160
INTERNATIONAL LABOUR ORGANIZATION
446
WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION
523
UNESCO
544
AMERICAN REGION
646
AFRICAN REGION
692
STATUS OF IMPLEMENTATION
715
CROSSREFERENCE TABLES
728

A European right to employment for disabled people?
106
The right to health for people with disabilities
131
The rights of disabled children the UN Convention on
147
Notes on the contributors
748
Index
754
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