The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities as a Vehicle for Social Transformation
NATIONAL MONITORING MECHANISMS OF THE CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES, 2008
Posted: 20 Jan 2010 Last revised: 7 Mar 2015
Date Written: 2008
Abstract
This chapter overviews the UN DIsability Convention’s adoption, summarizes its substantive content, and assesses its future prospects for bettering the life circumstances of the world’s six hundred and fifty million persons with disabilities. Although the CRPD has a remarkably broad transformative potential, we focus here on three areas we feel are most likely to yield immediate results.
Keywords: disability, human rights, development, unted nations, international law
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Stein, Michael Ashley, The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities as a Vehicle for Social Transformation (2008). NATIONAL MONITORING MECHANISMS OF THE CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES, 2008, William & Mary Law School Research Paper No. 09-30, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1539466
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