Persons with disabilities and human rights: troubled relationships

Journal title SOCIOLOGIA DEL DIRITTO
Author/s Maria Giulia Bernardini
Publishing Year 2022 Issue 2021/2
Language Italian Pages 22 P. 110-131 File size 226 KB
DOI 10.3280/SD2021-002006
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Following the adoption of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), scholars have extensively focused on the close relationship between persons with disabilities and their human rights. In this contribution, the author starts from the assumption that the relationship between persons with disabilities and human rights can only be adequately understood by grasping its "plural" (i.e. "relationships" rather than "relationship") and trou-bled dimension. She dwells on some of the most significant issues that in her view are: the "struggle" for rights (at first civil rights and then human rights) by persons with disabilities; the innovations introduced by the CRPD in the framework of international human rights law and its specificities; the problem of the effectiveness of disability human rights. Finally, she pays special attention to their violation occurred during the pandemic

Keywords: Disability - Human rights - CRPD - Struggle for rights - Disability studies - Pandemic

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Maria Giulia Bernardini, Persone con disabilità e diritti umani: relazioni problematiche in "SOCIOLOGIA DEL DIRITTO " 2/2021, pp 110-131, DOI: 10.3280/SD2021-002006