Disability in a Human Rights Context

Published: August 2016


The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) is a modern human rights treaty with innovative components. It impacts on disability studies as well as human rights law. Two innovations are scrutinized in this article: the model of disability and the equality and discrimination concepts of the CRPD.

Author: Theresia Degener


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Pages: 24
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