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Critical perspectives on human rights and disability law /

This book examines the changing relationship between disability and the law, addressing the intersection of human rights principles, human rights law, domestic law and the experience of people with disabilities. Drawn from the global experience of scholars and activists in a number of jurisdictions...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Rioux, Marcia H., Basser Marks, Lee Ann, Jones, Melinda
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Human dignity / Lee Ann Basser
  • Values in disability policy and law : equality / Marcia H. Rioux & Christopher A. Riddle
  • Inclusion, social inclusion & participation / Melinda Jones
  • Introduction : dignity
  • Valuing all lives
  • even "wrongful" ones / Melinda Jones
  • Children at the edge of life: parents, doctors and children's rights / Michael Freeman
  • Involuntary treatment, human dignity and human rights / Genevra Richardson
  • Exclusion: disabled women's sexual, reproductive and parenting rights / Roxanne Mykitiuk & Ena Chadha
  • Price v UK : the importance of human rights principles in promoting the rights of disabled prisoners in the United Kingdom / Angela Laycock
  • Introduction : equality
  • Beyond legal smokescreens : applying a human rights analysis to sterilization jurisprudence / Marcia H. Rioux & Lora Patton
  • Reasonable accommodation in securing substantive equality for persons with disabilities : the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with disabilities / Janet E. Lord and Rebecca Brown
  • Legal protection of persons with disabilities in Kenya : human rights imperatives / Kithure Kindiki
  • Corporate selective reporting of clinical drug trial results as a violation of the right to health / Aaron A. Dhir
  • Introduction : inclusion and participation
  • Political participation for people with disabilities / Michael Waterstone
  • The right to live a life free of violence for people with disabilities / Rodrigo Jiminez
  • Standard rules on equality of opportunities for persons with disabilities : legal view of provisions on support services, auxiliary resources and training : view from Latin America / Maria Soledad Cisternas Reyes
  • Monitoring human rights : a holistic approach / Paula C. Pinto.