Human Rights and Disability Advocacy
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Human Rights and Disability Advocacy

  1. 320 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Human Rights and Disability Advocacy

About this book

The United Nations adoption of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) constituted a paradigm shift in attitudes and approaches to disability rights, marking the first time in law-making history that persons with disabilities participated as civil society representatives and contributed to the drafting of an international treaty. On the way, they brought a new kind of diplomacy forward: empowering nongovernmental stakeholders, including persons with disabilities, within human rights discourse. This landmark treaty provides an opportunity to consider what it means to involve members of a global civil society in UN-level negotiations. Human Rights and Disability Advocacy brings together perspectives from individual representatives of the Disabled People's Organizations (DPOs), nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), indigenous peoples' organizations, states, and national institutions that played leading roles in the Convention's drafting process. The contributors provide vivid and personal accounts of the paths to victory, including stumbling blocks—not all of which were overcome—and offer a unique look into the politics of civil society organizations both from within and in its interaction with governments. Each essay describes the nonnegotiable key issues for which they advocated; the extent of success in reaching their goals; and insights into the limitations they faced. Through the plurality of voices and insider perspectives, Human Rights and Disability Advocacy presents fresh perspectives on the shift toward a new diplomacy and explores the implication of this model for human rights advocacy more generally. Contributors: Andrew Byrnes, Heidi Forrest, Phillip French, Lex Grandia, Huhana Hickey, Markku Jokinen, Liisa Kauppinen, Mi Yeon Kim, Gerison Lansdown, Connie Laurin-Bowie, Tirza Leibowitz, Don MacKay, Anna MacQuarrie, Ronald C. McCallum AO, Tara J. Melish, Pamela Molina Toledo, Maya Sabatello, Marianne Schulze, Belinda Shaw.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. List of Abbreviations
  6. Foreword
  7. Preface
  8. Introduction
  9. 1. A Short History of the International Disability Rights Movement
  10. 2. Our Lives, Our Voices: People with Intellectual Disabilities and Their Families
  11. 3. Living in the Community, Access to Justice: Having the Right Makes All the Difference
  12. 4. Inclusion or Choice? Securing the Right to Inclusive Education for All
  13. 5. An Eye Toward Effective Enforcement: A Technical-Comparative Approach to the Drafting Negotiations
  14. 6. Children with Disabilities
  15. 7. Women with Disabilities: The Convention Through the Prism of Gender
  16. 8. Including Deaf Culture and Linguistic Rights
  17. 9. Imagine: To Be a Part of This
  18. 10. Indigenous People with Disabilities: The Missing Link
  19. 11. At the United Nations . . . “The South Also Exists”
  20. 12. Voices Down Under: An Australian Perspective
  21. 13. Monitoring the Convention’s Implementation
  22. 14. The Role of National Human Rights Institutions
  23. 15. The New Diplomacy
  24. Notes
  25. List of Contributors
  26. Index
  27. Acknowledgments