The CRPD and Segregation
This paper explores the pervasive nature of the value system that is at the heart of the segregation of people with disabilities and analyses how it informs international law. It examines institutional responses to disability and how contemporary human rights provides a framework for social transfor...
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| Veröffentlicht in: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/alterjdr, |
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| Format: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Sprache: | Anglais |
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| Zusammenfassung: | This paper explores the pervasive nature of the value system that is at the heart of the segregation of people with disabilities and analyses how it informs international law. It examines institutional responses to disability and how contemporary human rights provides a framework for social transformation and a process of deinstitutionalisation. First, the paper illuminates how the medical model underpins the conceptualisation of disability and results in an ableist standard within society. Secondly, the paper discusses the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the human rights model of disability that is fundamental to implementing Convention rights. The paper then describes the systematic and holistic interpretation of the CRPD by the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities regarding the institutionalisation of people with disabilities and shows how article 19 of the Convention – Living independently and being included in the community – is to be understood in relation to other building blocks of the Convention. Finally, the paper explains how and why the institutionalisation of people with disabilities is segregation and a fundamental denial of human rights. |
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