This book provides a concise guide to international disability law. It analyses the case law of the CRPD Committee and other international human rights treaty bodies, and provides commentaries on more than 50 leading cases. The author elaborates on the obligations of States Parties under the CRPD and other international treaties, while also spelling out the rights of persons with disabilities, and the different mechanisms that exist at both domestic and international levels for ensuring that those rights are respected, protected and promoted. The author also delineates the traditional differentiation between civil and political rights on the one hand, and economic, social and cultural rights on the other. He demonstrates, through analysis of the evolving case law, how the gap between these two sets of rights is gradually closing. The result is a powerful tool for political decisionmakers, academics, legal practitioners, law students, persons with disabilities and their representative organisations, human rights activists and general readers.
By:
Coomara Pyaneandee
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Weight: 388g
ISBN: 9781138593473
ISBN 10: 1138593478
Pages: 218
Publication Date: 22 June 2018
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Further / Higher Education
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
1: INTRODUCTION; 2: PART I; 3: CHAPTER 1 The CRPD Committee, Rules of Procedure and the Optional Protocol to the Convention; 4: CHAPTER 2 Fundamental Principles, and Equality and Non-Discrimination (Articles 1 – 5); 5: CHAPTER 3 Women and Girls with Disabilities (Article 6); 6: PART II CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS; 7: CHAPTER 4 Equal Recognition Before the Law (Article 12) and Access to Justice (Article 13); 8: CHAPTER 5 Liberty and Security of the Person (Article 14) and Freedom from Torture (Article 15); 9: CHAPTER 6 Right to Life (Article 10); 10: CHAPTER 7 Freedom of Expression (Article 21) and Participation in Political and Public Life (Article 29); 11: PART III ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS; 12: CHAPTER 8 Accessibility (Article 9); 13: CHAPTER 9 Right to Education (Article 24); 14: CHAPTER 10 Right to Work and Employment (Article 27); 15: Chapter 11 Right to Independent Living and Being Included in the Community (Article 19); 16: CONCLUSION Monitoring and Implementation: The Way Forward; 17: Index
Coomaravel Pyaneandee has been a practising barrister for 17 years and is the current Vice-Chairperson of the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. He holds an LLB and an LLM in Public Law from the University of London. His main areas of practice include disability discrimination, protection of women and children from domestic violence and workers’ compensation.
Reviews for International Disability Law: A Practical Approach to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
`This is the best book on the CRPD' Nagase Osamu, Eminent Research Professor, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan
