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Human Rights and Disability Advocacy.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights SeriesPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (321 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780812208740
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Human Rights and Disability AdvocacyDDC classification:
  • 323.3
LOC classification:
  • HV1568 -- .H855 2014eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. A Short History of the International Disability Rights Movement -- 2. Our Lives, Our Voices: People with Intellectual Disabilities and Their Families -- 3. Living in the Community, Access to Justice: Having the Right Makes All the Difference -- 4. Inclusion or Choice? Securing the Right to Inclusive Education for All -- 5. An Eye Toward Effective Enforcement: A Technical-Comparative Approach to the Drafting Negotiations -- 6. Children with Disabilities -- 7. Women with Disabilities: The Convention Through the Prism of Gender -- 8. Including Deaf Culture and Linguistic Rights -- 9. Imagine: To Be a Part of This -- 10. Indigenous People with Disabilities: The Missing Link -- 11. At the United Nations . . . "The South Also Exists" -- 12. Voices Down Under: An Australian Perspective -- 13. Monitoring the Convention's Implementation -- 14. The Role of National Human Rights Institutions -- 15. The New Diplomacy -- Notes -- List of Contributors -- Index -- Acknowledgments.
Summary: Human Rights and Disability Advocacy brings together perspectives from civil society representatives who played key roles in the drafting of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, shedding light on the emergent practices of a "new diplomacy" and the larger enterprise of human rights advocacy at the international level.
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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. A Short History of the International Disability Rights Movement -- 2. Our Lives, Our Voices: People with Intellectual Disabilities and Their Families -- 3. Living in the Community, Access to Justice: Having the Right Makes All the Difference -- 4. Inclusion or Choice? Securing the Right to Inclusive Education for All -- 5. An Eye Toward Effective Enforcement: A Technical-Comparative Approach to the Drafting Negotiations -- 6. Children with Disabilities -- 7. Women with Disabilities: The Convention Through the Prism of Gender -- 8. Including Deaf Culture and Linguistic Rights -- 9. Imagine: To Be a Part of This -- 10. Indigenous People with Disabilities: The Missing Link -- 11. At the United Nations . . . "The South Also Exists" -- 12. Voices Down Under: An Australian Perspective -- 13. Monitoring the Convention's Implementation -- 14. The Role of National Human Rights Institutions -- 15. The New Diplomacy -- Notes -- List of Contributors -- Index -- Acknowledgments.

Human Rights and Disability Advocacy brings together perspectives from civil society representatives who played key roles in the drafting of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, shedding light on the emergent practices of a "new diplomacy" and the larger enterprise of human rights advocacy at the international level.

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