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Access denied: human rights and disabled people
- Authors:
- FOLEY Conor, PRATT Sue
- Publisher:
- Liberty
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 68p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Looks at the governments attitude towards civil rights for disabled people, at international law, and at discrimination against disabled people. Makes comparisons with the situation in Europe and in the United States.
Disabled people and European human rights: a review of the implications of the 1998 Human Rights Act for disabled children and adults in the UK
- Authors:
- CLEMENTS Luke, READ Janet
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 127p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
There has been increasing recognition of the ways in which disabled children and adults have been denied human and civil rights that others take for granted. In the year 2000, the 1998 Human Rights Act came into force in the UK. This book reviews the implications of the Act for disabled people. The book provides a clear and accessible account of the potential of the Human Rights Act to make a positive difference in relation to issues that have been identified through research, policy development and political debate as significant in the lives of disabled people. The book provides: an overview of key policy and legislative developments in the UK in relation to disabled children and adults in the post war period; an outline of the European Convention on Human Rights, the 1998 Human Rights Act and related procedures; an account of the ways in which disabled people's human rights have increasingly become a matter of concern and the implications of the Human Rights Act in relation to specific issues; a debate about the ways in which public bodies and practitioners within them can engage positively with the provisions of the Human Rights Act to develop better practice.
Commission seeks to add to its remit
- Author:
- REVANS Lauren
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 14.9.00, 2000, p.12.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The fledgling Disability Rights Commission is already scoring victories for disabled people, but it wants to use the Human Rights Act to go further.
The law, rights and disability
- Editor:
- COOPER Jeremy
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 317p.,bibliog.s
- Place of publication:
- London
Includes chapters on: working in partnership with disabled people; changing attitudes to the rights of people; improving the civil rights of people with disabilities through international law; improving the civil rights of people with disabilities through domestic law; the legal regulation of the powers and duties of local authorities with regard to disabled people; the Disability Discrimination Act 1995; disability, housing and homelessness; disability and mental health law; disabled children; and messages from disability research for law, policy and practice.
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.
Disability policies in European countries
- Authors:
- OORSCHOT Wim van, HVINDEN Bjorn
- Publisher:
- Kluwer Law International
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 128p.
- Place of publication:
- The Hague
This book examines the possible convergence in disability policies in Europe. It points out that assessment of claims for disability benefits are often complex and rely on input from interdisciplinary groups. It argues that in the disability area there rarely a simple relationship between cash and care. The policies of Spain, The Netherlands, Great Britain, Denmark and Ireland are examined.
Will new laws help disabled people in mainstream education?
- Author:
- BERRY Tom
- Journal article citation:
- RADAR Bulletin, 328, October 2002, pp.10-11.
- Publisher:
- Royal Association for Disability and Rehabilitation
New rights for disabled pupils and students came into force in September. The campaign manager at the Disability Rights Commission, explains their campaign and how it aims to help with changes in education resulting from implementation of the new laws.
Genes spell danger: mental health service users/survivors, bioethics and control
- Authors:
- BERESFORD Peter, WILSON Anne
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 17(5), August 2002, pp.541-553.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article argues for debates about bioethics and disabled people to address and include the perspectives of psychiatric system survivors, and their concerns about psychiatry and bioethics. While genetic approaches to physical and sensory impairment can be seen to be concerned with physical and bodily conformity, genetic approaches to madness and mental distress that are gaining increasing power and official legitimacy, are also closely associated with regulating diversity, divergence and dissent in thinking and perceptions.
Law and social work: contemporary issues for practice
- Editors:
- CULL Lesley-Ann, ROCHE Jeremy
- Publisher:
- Palgrave/Open University Press
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 302p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Basingstoke
Divided into three sections, each of which sheds light in different ways on the challenges and critical issues raised at the interface between social work and the law, this text covers issues such as: the relationship between social work values and the law; partnership with service users; risk and professional judgement; human rights; child protection and family support; elder abuse; youth justice; disability and special educational needs; and community care.
Some are more equal than others
- Author:
- SHOOTER Robert
- Journal article citation:
- Professional Social Work, March 1999, p.9.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
Discusses whether care facilities for disabled children meet their cultural needs and argues that a human rights issue is at stake.