Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Mental Health Law
... European Convention on Human ...… persons of unsound ...mental disabilities is not legally possible. People with mental disabilities could admit themselves into hospital if they wished to do ...
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Legal analysis of article 7 of the convention on the rights of persons with disabilities: children with disabilities
... with disabilities was held in the sessions of 1 and 2 February 2016 26 ...with disabilities were jointly discussed, and delegates maintained both the position of establishing a separate right for children ...
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"Beyond Negative Interpretations of Freedom of Contract: The Interplay between Private Law and Human Rights in Light of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities".
... the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities’ in Bernadette McSherry and Penelope Weller (eds), Rethinking Rights-Based Mental Health Laws (Oxford: Hart 2010), 160; ...
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Is the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Impacting Mental Health Laws and Policies in High-Income Countries? A Case Study of Implementation in Canada
... Human Rights Act, as well as Article 13 of the CRPD, required the Northwest Territories government to provide her with legal counsel to represent her in her discrimination complaint against the Northwest ...
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THE CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES
... The Convention was necessary to address more comprehensively the chal- lenges facing persons with disabilities and to better protect and promote their rights through a legally binding instru- ...
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Impact of the UN convention on the rights of persons with disabilities (UN CRPD) on mental health care research a systematic review
... the convention into national ...the rights in the UN-CRPD and capturing the awareness of those rights are still ...children’s rights with intellectual disability in ...the convention ...
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Enacting The Spirit Of The United Nations Convention On The Rights Of Persons With Disabilities: The Role Of Postsecondary Faculty In Ensuring Access
... (2006) Convention on the Rights of Persons With Disabilities has laid a critical foundation for accessible education throughout the ...of persons with disabilities who do not ...
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Implementing the international convention on the rights of persons with disabilities in Qatar: from charity to human rights
... the rights of persons with disabilities in accordance with the ...human rights in general, epitomized by the human rights offices in the Ministries of Interior and Foreign Affairs, ...
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The Impact of the International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on Qatari Domestic Legislation
... of persons with disabilities was one of the most controversial topics in the negotiations that led to the ...the Convention was approved with a footnote to the relevant article that read, "In ...
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Understanding Disability under the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Its Impact on International Refugee and Asylum Law
... human rights framework to adjudicate asylum claims offers many benefits, including greater uniformity and consistency of outcomes across ...human rights framework, the CRPD provides crucial guidance for ...
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The impact of article 12 of the convention on the rights of persons with disabilities on Qatar´s private law
... the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities provides that persons with disabilities are entitled to full legal capacity on an equal basis with others and obliges ...
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The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its Effects on the Promotion of Elite Disability Sport: A Worldwide Analysis
... human rights perspective in a plethora of countries (see Donnelly 2008; Roy 2007; Misener and Darcy 2014; Paramio-Salcines, Prieto and Llopis-Goig 2018; Veal 2015) has led to the promulgation of a substantial body ...
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The convention on the rights of persons with disabilities (CRPD) and Qatar's domestic legislation: the potential impact on the main legal domains
... Equal rights for persons with disabilities is the ultimate goal mandated by the CRPD, and it can probably be gradually achieved in Qatar as steps are taken towards reconsidering the approach to ...
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‘Organising objects’: Adult safeguarding practice and article 16 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
... ability that, like all human abilities and attributes, varies along a spectrum of ability. Legal capacity is both legal standing and legal agency - the recognition of the disabled person as a person before the law, and ...
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Can the U.S. Use a Reservation to Alleviate Sovereignty Concerns Regarding the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities?
... Despite such commitments to the cause, U.S. ratification of the CRPD is at the center of the debate. Those who oppose ratification cite sovereignty concerns, while supporters firmly contend that the non-binding treaty is ...
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An Analysis of Reporting and Monitoring in Relation to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the Right to Participation in Cultural Life and Intellectual Property
... recommended in civil society monitoring, in relation to the Committee ‘they in fact reverted to a very traditional model’ (Quinn, 2009 p252). An example of good practice is to be found in Austria’s approach, which ...
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Evading Promises: the Promise of Equality under U.S. Disability Law and How the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Can Help
... Seventeen years later, the United States enacted its second major piece of legislation, the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA). 9 The ADA prohibits the d[r] ...
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Reproductive Justice, Public Policy, and Abortion on the Basis of Fetal Impairment: Lessons from International Human Rights Law and the Potential Impact of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
... the Rights of Persons with Disabilities has renewed the debate on the relationship between the CRPD and the laws or government policies that facilitate disability-selective ...disability ...
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Implementing a paradigm shift: implementing the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the context of mental disability law
... the Convention therefore merely provides a right to ...human rights issue for people with mental disabilities (particularly, but not exclusively, psychosocial disabilities), but it may well be ...
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Transition to Inclusive Education Systems According to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
... The CRPD made inclusive education a goal to be achieved for all children. Article 24(1) provides that ‘States Parties shall ensure an inclusive education system at al l levels and lifelong learning’ . Nearly ten years ...
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