Human rights and disability advocacy / edited by Maya Sabatello and Marianne Schulze.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sabatello, Maya.

Schulze, Marianne, 1975-

Series:

Pennsylvania studies in human rights.

Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Optional Protocol (2007 March 30).

Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Optional Protocol.

Civil society.

Human rights advocacy--History.

Human rights advocacy.

Non-governmental organizations--Political activity.

Non-governmental organizations.

People with disabilities--Civil rights--History.

People with disabilities.

People with disabilities--Legal status, laws, etc--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

List of Abbreviations

Foreword

Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1. A Short History of the International Disability Rights Movement

Chapter 2. Our Lives, Our Voices: People with Intellectual Disabilities and Their Families

Chapter 3. Living in the Community, Access to Justice: Having the Right Makes All the Difference

Chapter 4. Inclusion or Choice? Securing the Right to Inclusive Education for All

Chapter 5. An Eye Toward Effective Enforcement: A Technical- Comparative Approach to the Drafting Negotiations

Chapter 6. Children with Disabilities

Chapter 7. Women with Disabilities: The Convention Through the Prism of Gender

Chapter 9. Imagine: To Be a Part of This

Chapter 10. Indigenous People with Disabilities: The Missing Link

Chapter 11. At the United Nations . . . “The South Also Exists”

Chapter 12. Voices Down Under: An Australian Perspective

Chapter 13. Monitoring the Convention’s Implementation

Chapter 14. The Role of National Human Rights Institutions

Chapter 15. The New Diplomacy

Notes

Contributors

Index

Acknowledgments

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780812208740

0812208749

OCLC:

899045480