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 …

Disability Page 1 2 Disability Christina Lee Disability studies are a relative newcomer in the
field of the humanities. Until recently the topic had not elicited much interest within medieval …

The outlook for Nigeria's 25 million persons living with disabilities has historically been
bleak. Most disabled persons lacked access to education, healthcare and employment …

The Millennium Development Goals did not specifically mention disability with respect to the
key aim of poverty reduction; as an unintended result, their promulgation may have served …

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 …

This article compares Turkey's Constitution and its Disabled Persons Act with the United
Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) and the core …

Purpose. Although the ratio of the disabled population is higher in Turkish society than the
average value in the world, studies in this issue have been limited to statistical surveys and …

The World Report on Disability, a joint endeavor of the World Health Organization and the
World Bank, launched in June 2011, is an astonishing achievement that will set the standard …

The historical picture of disability rights in the African regional human rights system can be
described as one of'underutilised potential'. 1 The foundational instrument, namely the …

Purpose: This paper explores the effect of inherent social inequalities on disability rights
movements and their political activities in India and Nepal. The situation for persons with …