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Disability, development and the dawning of a new convention: A cause for optimism?

✍ Scribed by Maria Kett; Raymond Lang; Jean-Francois Trani

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2009
Tongue
English
Weight
97 KB
Volume
21
Category
Article
ISSN
0954-1748

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✦ Synopsis

Abstract

This policy arena focuses on a significantly under‐represented subject in international development journals—disability. This is timely, as the United Nations Convention of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities recently came into force in May 2008. As a result, there is a growing awareness among policy‐makers and development practitioners of the need to comprehensively address disability issues in their core activities. Persons with disabilities have long been subjects of international aid, so why has there been so little focus on mainstreaming disability within international development, and so little attention to development within disability circles? This editorial, and the papers presented in the policy arena, draw out the key issues around these themes that emerged from a major conference—poverty, discrimination and lack of access—held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in May 2008 and looks at the trajectory of links between disability and development and asks what is the significance of convention and how will it take the field forward. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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