Experienced by more than one billion people worldwide, disability is increasingly recognised as a human rights issue internationally. Completely up to date, Disability and Human Rights draws on cutting edge international research and real life examples to explore the global dimension of disability a
Disability, Globalization and Human Rights
β Scribed by Hisayo Katsui; Chalklen Shuaib
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Year
- 2020
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 193
- Series
- Interdisciplinary Disability Studies
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Table of Contents
Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of contributors
Prologue by Hisayo Katsui
1. Introduction
2. Key concepts and theories
3. Methodology
4. Disability and vulnerability: A human rights reading of the responsive state
5. The global disability rights realization in Ethiopia: Inclusive education of children with disabilities
6. The global disability rights realization in Finland: Deinstitutionalization of persons with intellectual disabilities
7. The global disability rights realization in Uganda: Political participation and representation of persons with disabilities
8. Changing the paradigm of disability from stigma to equity in university social work education in Kyrgyzstan
9. The global disability rights realization in Nepal and Tanzania: The right to water and sanitation
10. Global disability rights instruments and the challenges of implementation: Observations of the former UN Special Rapporteur on Disability
11. Methodological discussion: Participatory research approach in Disability Studies
12. Discussing and theorizing global disability rights
13. Concluding remarks
Epilogue by Hisayo Katsui
Index
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