This Chapter offers a thematic look at the equality framework of the Convention on the
Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and compares it to the broad features of …

The United Nations' Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities'(CRPD), which
entered into force in May 2008, has been hailed by disability rights scholars and activists as …

In Australia there is no comprehensive protection of rights in a Bill of Rights or in the
Constitution, nor is there any provision which guarantees equality between members of the …

Although the 1947 United Nations (UN) Declaration of Human Rights1 clearly covers all
human beings, a human rights approach is a relatively recent phenomenon in disability …

This paper argues that, although originally conceived as part of the 'civil rights' agenda, the
development of disability rights in Britain by the Disability Rights Commission (DRC) is …

While many important advances have been made to address injustice in the context of
disability–such as anti-discrimination and disability access laws, as well as the recently …

International concern for the protection of the human rights of people with disabilities2 has
been all but absent until relatively recent times. As a particularly vulnerable minority of 500 …

In the past 25 years, disability rights law worldwide has undergone a revolutionary
transformation. Many countries started this journey by adopting equality and anti …

The Government plans to introduce a new Commission for Equality and Human Rights
(CEHR), covering disability, race, gender, sexual orientation, religion/belief and age. This …

At a time of political and legal change, disability law and disability rights in the United
Kingdom (UK) in the late 1990s stand at a crossroads. Prior to 1997, the Conservative …