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The first textbook on international and European disability law and policy, analysing the interaction between different legal systems and sources.
This volume studies the implications of the right to inclusive education in human rights law for disability law, policy and practice.
This Research Handbook comes at an opportune time, and provides a comprehensive and wide-ranging exploration of relevant developments concerning disability rights at EU level. It also looks beyond the EU, focusing on how disability has been relevant in EU external relations. In addition, the Research Handbook considers the interface between EU disability law and Council of Europe law.
This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "Disability Human Rights Law" that was published in Laws
This title delves into mental health debates over abolition or reform, applying the socio-historical context to provide understanding. It presents both sides of the argument using multi-disciplinary sources to discuss these claims. It argues for the reform of mental health to maximize the support and choices given to those with mental impairments.
This book considers the European Union as a project with a major antidiscrimination goal, which is important to remember at a time of increasing resentment against particularly exposed groups, especially migrants, refugees, members of ethnic or religious minorities and LGBTI persons. While equality and non-discrimination have long been core principles of the international community as a whole, as is made obvious by the UN Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, they have shaped European integration in a particular way. The concepts of diversity, pluralism and equality have always been inherent in that process, the EU being virtually founded on the values of equality and non-di...
Explores how society's privileging of autonomy and of civil and political freedoms, fails to uphold the human rights of those with cognitive disability.
This volume is a systematic commentary on the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), and includes analysis of its Optional Protocol. It provides an authoritative discussion on the CRPD and is a definitive resource tool for use in litigation as well as in formulating policy at the domestic and international levels.
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 t...