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Issues in human rights protection of intellectually disabled persons
- Author:
- DIMPOULOS Andreas
- Publisher:
- Ashgate
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 264p.
- Place of publication:
- Farnham
In this book the author examines the potential impact of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on issues of intellectual disability and human rights protection, and argues that intellectual disability poses a distinct set of human rights challenges when compared with other types of disability. Noting that human rights within liberalism are linked to autonomous choice, the book aims to present "a theory as to how persons with intellectual disability can be allowed to flourish in a liberal setting through the exercise of their human rights, even though they may be perceived as non-autonomous". It looks at the European Convention on Human Rights and case law of the European Court of Human Rights, and includes a comparative analysis of the position of people with intellectual disability in English and German law.