Background: The United Nations (UN) Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
(CRPD) is a milestone in the recognition of the human rights of persons with disabilities …

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) has
now entered into international law. It requires that all governments take cognisance and …

(1) Background: Globally, persons with disabilities (PWDs) face numerous challenges
including access to healthcare. This scoping review sought to assess the level of …

This research brief presents a search for national policies on disability and UN CRPD
ratification in African countries. The results of the search found that over half of the countries …

Executive summary South Africa occupies 1,227,200 sq km at the southern tip of Africa. It
has nine provinces: Eastern Cape, Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga, Northern Cape …

This paper reviews the process and outcome of constructing a “rights model of disability”
which is culturally specific to Jordan and Lebanon. The objective of the empirical part was, to …

Abstract This African Journal of Disability supplement focuses on papers presented at the
third AfriNEAD Symposium in 2011. In this closing editorial, we want to give an overview of …

This scoping study assessed the realization of the rights for persons with disabilities in
Rwanda since the signing of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with …

The Namibian government ratified the UNCRPD and its optional protocol in 2007 raising
expectations that such a convention would fundamentally improve the lives of persons with …

Background: The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities came into place in
2006, as the main instrument for advancing the human rights of persons with disabilities. For …