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Valuing People Now: a human rights perspective
- Author:
- PARKER Camilla
- Journal article citation:
- Tizard Learning Disability Review, 14(2), April 2009, pp.39-43.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
The government's 'Valuing People Now' strategy aims to ensure that people with a learning disability can lead their lives like anyone else and be treated with dignity and respect. The author argues that taking a human rights based approach to the Valuing People Now strategy is of crucial importance to its implementation. The article highlights five principles of a human rights approach and summarises requirements of the Human Rights Act 1998 and the UN Convention of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
Working futures?: disabled people, policy and social inclusion
- Editors:
- ROULSTONE Alan, BARNES Colin, (eds.)
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 346p.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
This book looks at the current effectiveness and future scope for enabling policy in the field of disability and employment. The book brings together a wide range of policy insights to bear on the question of disabled peoples working futures. It includes analyses of recent policy initiatives as diverse as the Disability Discrimination Act 1995, Draft Disability Bill, the benefits system, New Deal for Disabled People, job retention policy, comparative disability policy, the role of the voluntary sector and 'new policies for a new workplace'. Contributions from academics, NGOs, the OECD and the disabled peoples' movement bring multiple theoretical, professional and user perspectives to the debates at the heart of the book.
The human rights of persons with intellectual disabilities
- Editors:
- HERR Stanley, GOSTIN Lawrence O., KOH Harold Hongju, (eds.)
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 551p.
- Place of publication:
- Oxford
This volume brings together two important contemporary social movements: human rights and disability rights. It analyses the global struggle to realize equality, dignity, and comprehensive human and civil rights for persons with intellectual disabilities. In twenty original chapters, contributors from a range of disciplines address the latest international developments in the field. These include international human rights standards and other sources of legal protection, nondiscrimination laws and the economics of equality, preventative technology, remediation and habilitation, and lifestyle choices and autonomy. The volume identifies recent international advances in their human rights and public policy positions, in addition to making recommendations for further advances at both the national and international levels. Although human rights are universal and persons with intellectual disabilities are entitled to protection under general human rights law, the authors argue that there are differences that must be taken into account in order that the intellectually disabled can enjoy even the most basic of rights. This volume explores the implications of altering the status quo, and offers policy-makers and professionals ways to learn from each other's innovations in protecting rights, implementing quality assurance measures, and applying the concepts of inclusion and the 'least restrictive environment'.
Extra agreement under the International Agreement on the Rights of Disabled People
- Author:
- INSPIRED SERVICES
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department for Work and Pensions
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 9p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is an international human rights treaty that makes it clear that disabled people have, and should be able to enjoy, the same human rights as others. The Convention sets an internationally recognised benchmark for the human rights of disabled people against which countries, including the UK, will be measured. The Convention also has an additional section called the Optional Protocol. This Protocol allows individuals who believe that their rights under the Convention have been breached to bring complaints to the UN Committee established to monitor the Convention. The Committee can also undertake enquiries into alleged grave or systematic violations of the Convention. The Convention applies to all disabled people and covers all areas of life including access to justice, personal mobility, health, education, work and recreation. This document is the easy read version of the Convention, and outlines how: disabled people - or groups of disabled people - can complain to the special Committee if they feel they are not getting their rights under the International Agreement; anyone who makes a complaint has to give their name, or the name of their group; when a complaint is made the Committee will privately tell the government of the country where it happened what it is about; in a very urgent and serious case the Committee may ask a country to do something straight away to help the person who has made the complaint. It also explains how the Committee will talk about complaints in private. Afterwards it will send its views to the government of the country and the person who complained.
We have human rights: a human rights handbook for people with developmental disabilities
- Authors:
- HESLA Bret, KENNEDY Mary Kay
- Publisher:
- Harvard Law School Project on Disability
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 28p.
- Place of publication:
- Cambridge, MA
This booklet aims to help people with developmental disabilities to learn about their rights and to talk with others about their rights. The booklet is in two sections, 'Your rights' and 'Building skills together'. Your rights covers aspects of human rights including: equality; safety; home and family; privacy; independent living; work; education; health; access; political life; new attitudes; culture and sports. Building skills together contains two exercises. The first, 'I want to live like this!' is about living independently in the community and deciding how you want to live. The second, 'Speak up with power' is about how to be assertive.
With inclusion in mind: an easy read guide
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Government
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Government
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 15p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
This booklet is aimed at people with a mental illness or learning disability. It describes the things that councils can do to make things better for them. In 2003, the Scottish Government made a new law called The Mental Health (Care and Treatment) ( Scotland ) Act 2003. The new law says that local councils must help anyone who has a mental illness or a learning disability get the best from life. Local councils should not provide separate services for people with learning disabilities or mental illnesses, but should make sure that they can use all their services. This booklet lists various ways in which council staff can help people in relation to: their home; their community; their work; their money; their family; their education; art and culture; volunteering; taking part; and their health.