Aspects of the Impact of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on South African Health Law: Section 1

Little attention has been focused on the analysis of the interrelation between disability and elite disability sport from the human rights perspective as the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) demands of those countries that ratified this global regulation. More than a decade since its promulgation in December 2006, the United Nations itself and a plethora of authors recognises that disability in general and disability sport by extension has not yet been seen as a human rights issue in many countries, principally in developing countries. This paper is divided into four main parts. First, academic literature in relation to disability, human rights policy and sport at elite level is explored. Second, it examines the active role of the International Paralympic Committee, regarded as a major advocate for the rights of the sport promotion of athletes with disabilities, to implement the Convention by the organisation of sports events for Paralympic athletes worldwide at all levels of the sport development continuum. Third, it explains the methods and data collection followed in the study and the following section presents results of the analysis. Finally, it draws an international scenario that might be valuable in informing academics, institutions and professionals to promote elite disability sport from the human rights perspective.

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DeCovidation = Deinstitutionalization. Independent Living and Inclusion in the Community

Socialinė teorija empirija politika ir praktika ◽

10.15388/stepp.2020.21 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 21 ◽

pp. 26-36

Author(s):

Rasa Genienė

Keyword(s):

Content Analysis ◽

United Nations ◽

Eastern Europe ◽

Independent Living ◽

Central And Eastern Europe ◽

The Elderly ◽

Soviet Regime ◽

Persons With Disabilities ◽

United Nations Convention ◽

The United Nations

The global coronovirus (Covid-19) pandemic has been revealed what about half of the world’s deaths are recorded in large institutions of the elderly and people with disabilities, and these are later thought to be incentives for states to take active deinstitutionalisation efforts. In order for deinstitutionalisation actions to respond to its ideological origins, which lie in the provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, in the necessary legal instruments and in clarifying that Member States are responsible. The article reveals how the deinstitutionalisation processes that have already started are implemented and evaluated in Central and Eastern Europe and discusses their problems. Content analysis was used to investigate the Soviet regime, leading to the implementation of official and alternative (shadow) reports on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

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The Protection of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities under International Human Rights Law before the Adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

International and European Disability Law and Policy ◽

10.1017/9781108289450.008 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 36-53

Keyword(s):

Human Rights ◽

United Nations ◽

International Human Rights Law ◽

Human Rights Law ◽

International Human Rights ◽

Persons With Disabilities ◽

United Nations Convention ◽

International Human ◽

The United Nations

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Art.49 Accessible Format

The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities ◽

10.1093/law/9780198810667.003.0050 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Varney Eliza

Keyword(s):

United Nations ◽

Freedom Of Expression ◽

Public Life ◽

Educational Materials ◽

Persons With Disabilities ◽

National Implementation ◽

Awareness Raising ◽

United Nations Convention ◽

The Impact ◽

Accessible Format

This chapter examines Article 49 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). The importance of Article 49 CRPD is threefold. Firstly, it facilitates the dissemination of the CRPD by requiring that the Convention be made available in accessible formats. Secondly, this provision has the potential to set a benchmark for the accessibility of the CRPD text, but also of CRPD-related materials, such as CRPD educational materials. Thirdly, the impact of this article has the potential to go beyond the CRPD and in the development of an accessibility standard for all treaties. The chapter explores these issues in more depth. It also discusses the connection between Article 49 CRPD and other provisions of the Convention, including Article 8 (awareness-raising), Article 9 (accessibility), Article 21 (freedom of expression and opinion and access to information), Article 24 (education), Article 29 (participation in political and public life), and Article 33 (national implementation and monitoring).

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