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Wednesday, April 27, 2011

United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities - Multidisciplinary Perspectives Available on line

  United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities - Multidisciplinary Perspectives
       Jukka Kumpuvuori and Martin Scheinin (eds.)
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United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities - Multidisciplinary Perspectives' traces the entry into force of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The book offers a number of fresh approaches to disability studies and disability rights by exploring the lives of persons with disabilities from multiple perspectives. It provides the reader with an insightful reading experience on the contemporary topics of disability studies and disability rights.
The book can be utilized as introductory material for anyone who wants to get familiar with disability rights. The book can well serve as material for disability rights teaching and autonomous individual studies.


       The Center for Human Rights of Persons with Disabilities (VIKE) is a joint project of the Finnish Association of People with Mobility Disabilities, the Threshold Association and the Institute for Human Rights at Åbo Akademi University. VIKE promotes the human rights of persons with disabilities through advocacy, lobbying, awareness-raising and research. Please visit the web site of VIKE at www.vike.fi.
       TABLE OF CONTENTS
       PREFACE

       PRESENTATION OF THE AUTHORS

       PART I: UN CRPD - WHY AND WHAT?

       Chapter 1: The Special Reaching for the Universal: Why a Special Convention for Persons with Disabilities?
       Jarna Petman

       Chapter 2: UN CRPD and the Human Rights of Persons with Disabilities
       Pentti Arajärvi

       PART II: 'TRADITIONAL' DISABILITY RIGHTS AND THE UN CRPD

       Chapter 3: Treating the Different Ones Differently - a Vehicle for Equality for Persons with Disabilities? Implications of Article 5 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
       Jukka Kumpuvuori and Martin Scheinin

       Chapter 4: The Changing Relationship between Disability and Education
       Joel Kivirauma and Matti Laitinen

       Chapter 5: Teachers' and Students' Awareness of and Attitudes towards the Concept of Inclusion Exemplified in Article 24 of the UN CRPD
       Jeyaprathaban Sujathamalini

       Chapter 6: The Right to "Decent Work" of Persons with Disabilities: Article 27 of the Convention and the Case of Uganda
       Edson Ngirabakunzi and Hisayo Katsui

       PART III: PARTICIPATION OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES

       Chapter 7: Towards Participation of Persons with Disabilities from the South: Implications of Article 32 of the Convention
       Hisayo Katsui

       Chapter 8: Barriers to the Inclusion of Disabled People in Disability Policy-Making in Seven African Countries
       Raymond Lang and Ambrose Murangira

       PART IV: NEW TRENDS IN DISABILITY RIGHTS

       Chapter 9: Realizing the Right to Adequate Food for People with Disabilities in Uganda
       Emmanuel K. Kanyemibwa

       Chapter 10: Achieving Human Security through Political Advocacy: Linking Ugandan and Finnish DPO Advocacy Work to Article 14 of the UN CRPD
       Jukka Kumpuvuori and Hisayo Katsui

       Chapter 11: Participatory Justice, the UN Disability Human Rights Convention, and the Right to Participate in Sport, Recreation, and Play
       Janet E. Lord and Michael Ashley Stein

       Chapter 12: Mental Health Law and Human Rights: Evolution, Challenges and the Promise of the New Convention
       Michael Perlin and Éva Szeli
       Chapter 13: Persons with Deafblindness in Light of International Agreements
       Riku Virtanen

       Chapter 14: From Devil's Seed to Disabled God - Disability and the Human Rights Approach on the Bible Studies and Practices of Christian Communities
       Amu Urhonen

       Chapter 15: Restrictions of Sexual and Reproductive Rights - The Case of Uzbeki Women with Disabilities
       Feruza Zagirtdinova

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