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Recognising human rights in different cultural contexts : the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) / edited by Emily Julia Kakoullis, Kelley Johnson.

Contributor(s): Kakoullis, Emily Julia [editor.] | Johnson, Kelley, 1947- [editor.] | ProQuest (Firm) [distributor.]Publisher: Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, 2020Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9789811507861; 9789811507854Subject(s): Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Optional Protocol (2007 March 30) | People with disabilities -- Legal status, laws, etc | People with disabilities -- Civil rights | Human rightsGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 341.485 Online resources: Click here to access online
Contents:
Introduction / Emily Julia Kakoullis and Kelley Johnson -- I. Culture, disability and the CRPD -- Legal culture and the CRPD / Gerard Quinn -- Anthropology, disability and the CRPD / James G. Rice -- Recognising cultural diversity : implications for persons with disabilities / Kelley Johnson -- A personal reflection on indigeneity, colonisation and CRPD / Huhana Hickey -- II. The ratification process : to be or not to be? -- The failure of the United States to ratify the CRPD / Arlene S. Kanter -- The long road to ratification : Ireland and the CRPD / Eilionóir Flynn -- A consultative culture? The ratification process for the CRPD in Cyprus / Emily Julia Kakoullis -- A Janus-faced affair : Sri Lanka's ratification of the CRPD / Dinesha Samararatne -- III. Making disability human rights happen? Cultural challenges to implementing the CRPD -- The ‘transposition’ of Article 12 of the CRPD in China and its potential impact on Chinese legal capacity law and culture / Huang Yi -- Implementation of Article 19 of the CRPD in Hungary and its impact on the deinstitutionalisation process so far / Magdi Birtha -- Implementing Article 19 of the CRPD in Nordic welfare states : the culture of welfare and the CRPD / Ciara Brennan and Rannveig Traustadóttir -- Article 30 of the CRPD as a vehicle for social transformation : harnessing the CRPD’s potential for persons with intellectual disabilities / Matthew S. Smith and Michael Ashley Stein -- IV. Monitoring the CRPD : resolving conflicting interests? -- Was ratification of the CRPD the high watermark for United Kingdom disability rights? Ten years of monitoring implementation of the CRPD / Neil Crowther and Liz Sayce OBE -- The role of disabled people’s organisations in promoting the CRPD in Indonesia / Dina Afrianty -- The process of state party reporting to the CRPD committee : the Indian experience / Amita Dhanda -- Conclusion / Kelley Johnson and Emily Julia Kakoullis.
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Introduction / Emily Julia Kakoullis and Kelley Johnson -- I. Culture, disability and the CRPD -- Legal culture and the CRPD / Gerard Quinn -- Anthropology, disability and the CRPD / James G. Rice -- Recognising cultural diversity : implications for persons with disabilities / Kelley Johnson -- A personal reflection on indigeneity, colonisation and CRPD / Huhana Hickey -- II. The ratification process : to be or not to be? -- The failure of the United States to ratify the CRPD / Arlene S. Kanter -- The long road to ratification : Ireland and the CRPD / Eilionóir Flynn -- A consultative culture? The ratification process for the CRPD in Cyprus / Emily Julia Kakoullis -- A Janus-faced affair : Sri Lanka's ratification of the CRPD / Dinesha Samararatne -- III. Making disability human rights happen? Cultural challenges to implementing the CRPD -- The ‘transposition’ of Article 12 of the CRPD in China and its potential impact on Chinese legal capacity law and culture / Huang Yi -- Implementation of Article 19 of the CRPD in Hungary and its impact on the deinstitutionalisation process so far / Magdi Birtha -- Implementing Article 19 of the CRPD in Nordic welfare states : the culture of welfare and the CRPD / Ciara Brennan and Rannveig Traustadóttir -- Article 30 of the CRPD as a vehicle for social transformation : harnessing the CRPD’s potential for persons with intellectual disabilities / Matthew S. Smith and Michael Ashley Stein -- IV. Monitoring the CRPD : resolving conflicting interests? -- Was ratification of the CRPD the high watermark for United Kingdom disability rights? Ten years of monitoring implementation of the CRPD /
Neil Crowther and Liz Sayce OBE -- The role of disabled people’s organisations in promoting the CRPD in Indonesia / Dina Afrianty -- The process of state party reporting to the CRPD committee : the Indian experience /
Amita Dhanda -- Conclusion /
Kelley Johnson and Emily Julia Kakoullis.

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