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Disability and universal human rights: legal, ethical, and conceptual implications of the convention on the rights of persons with disabilities

Disability and universal human rights: legal, ethical, and conceptual implications of the convention on the rights of persons with disabilities

Subject Index Disabled persons
Subject Index Human rights
Subject Index Universal human rights protection system
Author Anderson Joel and Philips
Publisher Netherlands Institute of Human Rights
Date of publication 2012
Place of publication
ISBN 9789039358634
Number of pages 206
Language English
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The 2008 UN convention on the rights of persons with disabilities (CRPD) provides a landmark articulation of the universality of human rights. It affirms in strong terms that all human beings have a claim to full inclusion and equal participation in society, something denied to many because of disability.