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The rights of disabled children and young people
- Author:
- HORNA Patricia
- Publisher:
- Save the Children Sweden
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 23p.
- Place of publication:
- Stockholm
This paper is about the rights of children and young people with disabilities. It sets out both to discuss the subject of disability from a Child Rights angle and to develop some basic guidelines for tackling this issue in a practical way. The paper aims to shape people’s thinking on everyday attitudes to disabled children and young people. It looks at various ideas about disability and the prejudices and stereotypes in which they are rooted. The rights of disabled children and young people are examined from a universal standpoint.
What disability civil rights cannot do: employment and political economy
- Author:
- RUSSELL Marta
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 17(2), March 2002, pp.117-135.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
The Americans with Disabilities Act is both a liberal civil rights bill and a labour economics bill meant to increase the employment of disabled persons. It identifies the source of unemployment in discriminatory attitudes of employers and physical barriers in the work environment, and promotes inclusion through the establishment of regulations that are intended to create 'equal opportunity' in the labour market. Such liberal reforms primarily focus on 'irrational' discriminatory attitudes. Operating within an individualist framework, civil rights have not given sufficient attention to structural barriers, which 'rational' business practices, the economic system and class power relationships erect. This paper will both micro- and macro-economic realities of US capitalism, which directly impede disabled peoples' employment and perpetuate a disabling society. The failure of rights legislation to increase disabled people's employment exposes the contradictions of promoting equal opportunity in a class-based (unequal) society.
Valuing diversity: the disability agenda: we've only just begun
- Author:
- CAMPBELL Jane
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 17(4), June 2002, pp.471-478.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
If society is to value all its disabled people, it needs to find ways of making this collective minority powerful enough to influence the future. Shaping the future is something the Disabled People's Movement has been preoccupied with for decades. The key is unlock some of the fundamental principles of the social model of disability. This model has the potential to transform disabled people's lives. It has become the disability movement's tool for social inclusion.