Enabling Virtual Knowledge Networks for Human Rights Monitoring for People with Disabilities

Holistic disability rights monitoring is an imperative approach to permit translation of rights on paper into rights in reality for people with disabilities. However, evidence-based knowledge produced through such a holistic monitoring approach has to be accessible to a broad range of stakeholders, e.g., groups such as: researchers, representatives of disability community, people with disabilities, media, policy makers, and the general public. Besides, the collected evidence should contribute to building capacity within disability community around human rights questions. This article explains the design process of a Virtual Knowledge Network (VKN) as an operational tool to support mobilization and dissemination of evidence-based knowledge produced by the Disability Rights Promotion International Canada (DRPI-Canada) project. This VKN is embedded in the more general framework of DRPI, grounded in a human rights approach to disability that acknowledges the importance of creating knowledgeable communities in order to make the disability rights monitoring efforts sustainable.

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Menyoal Kesenjangan dan Diskriminisi Publik Terhadap Penyandang Disabilitas

Journal of Governance and Social Policy ◽

10.24815/gaspol.v2i2.23258 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

pp. 169-178

Author(s):

Risky Novialdi ◽

Isvarwani Isvarwani ◽

Fauzi Fauzi ◽

Ilyas Ismail ◽

Muammar Qadafi

Keyword(s):

Human Rights ◽

Sexual Harassment ◽

Public Services ◽

Daily Life ◽

People With Disabilities ◽

Disability Rights ◽

Public Places ◽

Persons With Disabilities ◽

Main Requirement ◽

The Family

Disabilitas menjadi topik permasalahan yang serius periode belakangan ini, hal tersebut dikarenakan penyandang disabilitas rawan akan berbagai tindakan diskriminasi secara fisik maupun mental, bahkan difabel rentan menjadi korban pelecehan seksual dalam ruang lingkup keluarga ataupun non difabel. Para disabilitas menghadapi berbagai problematika dalam kehidupan sehari-hari. Penyandang disabilitas seringkali di tolak dengan alasan keterbatasan mereka, bahkan ada beberapa yang menjadikan sehat jasmani dan rohani sebagai syarat utama untuk bisa mangakses bidang-bidang tertentu. Bahkan pelanggaran Hak Asasi Manusia (HAM) terhadap penyandang disabilitas masih dijumpai di lokasi sekitar. Kesenjangan yang diterima oleh penyandang disabilitas menjadi tekanan tersendiri bagi para difabel untuk memenuhi segala aspek kebutuhannya. Pemenuhan hak-hak disabilitas masih kurang diperhatikan, baik dalam sarana bangunan atau infastruktur, maupun fasilitas-fasilitas di tempat umum. Ketidaksetaraan juga terjadi dalam sektor pendidikan, lapangan pekerjaan, politik, dan aksesibilitas terhadap transportasi. Hal tersebut menunjukkan adanya perlakuan yang berbeda yang diterima oleh penyandang disabilitas terhadap layanan publik yang ramah bagi penyandang disabilitas.Disability has become a serious problem topic in recent times, this is because people with disabilities are prone to various acts of discrimination physically and mentally, even people with disabilities are vulnerable to being victims of sexual harassment within the family or non-disabled spheres. People with disabilities face various problems in their daily life. Persons with disabilities are often rejected on the grounds of their limitations, there are even some who make physically and mentally healthy as the main requirement to be able to access certain fields. Even human rights violations against persons with disabilities are still found in nearby locations. The gap that is accepted by people with disabilities is a separate pressure for people with disabilities to meet all aspects of their needs. Fulfillment of disability rights is still lacking in attention, both in building facilities or infrastructure, as well as facilities in public places. Inequality also exists in the sectors of education, employment, politics, and accessibility to transportation. This shows that there is a different treatment received by persons with disabilities towards public services that are friendly to persons with disabilities.

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Human Rights and Neoliberalism in Australian Welfare to Work Policy: Experiences and Perceptions of People with Disabilities and Disability Stakeholders

Disability Studies Quarterly ◽

10.18061/dsq.v34i4.3992 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 34 (4) ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Sarah Parker Harris ◽

Randall Owen ◽

Karen R Fisher ◽

Robert Gould

Keyword(s):

Human Rights ◽

Service Providers ◽

National Level ◽

People With Disabilities ◽

Welfare To Work ◽

Disability Rights ◽

Font Size ◽

Persons With Disabilities ◽

Accessible Information ◽

The Government

Recent policy approaches in Australia, influenced by neoliberalism, have constrained the implementation of international disability rights at the national level. Within the neoliberal and human rights approaches to social policy, what is the lived experience of people with disabilities? In focus groups with people with disabilities and interviews with disability stakeholders in Australia, participants were asked about their experiences and perspectives of welfare to work programs. We analyzed the data by drawing on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities as a framework. The analysis revealed tensions between the rights and responsibilities of citizens and the government, and a disconnection between policy discourse and policy practice. The results suggest that disability rights are jeopardized unless governments take responsibility to create the policy environment for rights-based policy to be implemented; including the equalization of opportunities, providing accessible information and communication about employment, and addressing the administration and process practices that employment service providers follow.

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Sociology of Disability in India: A Victim of Disciplinary Apathy

Social Change ◽

10.1177/0049085717712816 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 47 (3) ◽

pp. 373-386

Author(s):

Vikash Kumar ◽

Ketaki Dwivedi

Keyword(s):

Human Rights ◽

Science Studies ◽

Disability Rights ◽

Disabled People ◽

Social Scientists ◽

Policy Makers ◽

Critical Part ◽

The Subject ◽

Rights Issue ◽

First World

The recognition of disability as a human rights and developmental issue encouraged social scientists to study the phenomenon of disability more scientifically and objectively. Concerns raised by both disabled and non-disabled academicians and disability rights activists in the First World lead to a greater response from academia. The issue of disability thus, over the years, became a critical part of the agenda for public policy and social science studies. A section of western sociologists understood that, by and large, the onus of disability did not lie with affected individuals but rather on society which was responsible for their activity and for imposing restrictions. Unlike western academia, however, the issue of disability has not found space in India. Its absence from the subject matter of Indian sociology has created a gap in the discipline’s understanding, creating the risk to exercise sympathy and charity rather than a sociological sensibility which sees disability as a human rights issue to be dealt with at the level of rehabilitation and social work. The present article seeks to locate disability as an indispensible part of the curricular of the Indian sociology discipline; rejecting the ‘charity’ outlook favoured by sections of academia, policy makers, bureaucracy, activists and the general populace towards disabled people.

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Sizing up the Opposition

The Indian Yearbook of Comparative Law 2016 ◽

10.1093/oso/9780199482139.003.0014 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 328-351

Author(s):

Amita Dhanda

Keyword(s):

Human Rights ◽

United Nations ◽

People With Disabilities ◽

The Other ◽

Disability Rights ◽

Institutional Integrity ◽

Other Hand ◽

The World ◽

Treaty Body ◽

The United Nations

This chapter presents that the case for a Comprehensive Disability Rights Convention (CRPD) was accepted because it was realized that the United Nations Human Rights Conventions, before the CRPD, did not look at disability rights from the perspective of people with disabilities. CRPD, on the other hand, was totally informed by the participation credo of nothing about us without us. Thus, the chapter sets up a comparison between the CRPD Treaty Body and the other human rights monitoring bodies to assess whether the various monitoring bodies undertake their oversight tasks in harmony with each other. Is their institutional integrity in the manner in which the world body seeks accountability from states or inadvertently or otherwise the states have been provided pick and choose space between various human rights bodies of the United Nations?

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Disability and Capability: Exploring the Usefulness of Martha Nussbaum's Capabilities Approach for the UN Disability Rights Convention

The Journal of Law Medicine & Ethics ◽

10.1111/jlme.12088 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 41 (4) ◽

pp. 768-780 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Caroline Harnacke

Keyword(s):

Human Rights ◽

United Nations ◽

People With Disabilities ◽

Capabilities Approach ◽

Disability Rights ◽

Disabled People ◽

Persons With Disabilities ◽

Cultural Rights ◽

United Nations Convention ◽

The United Nations

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) aims at empowering people with disabilities by granting them a number of civil and political, but also economic, social, and cultural rights. This is a groundbreaking agreement for all persons with disabilities, especially because it is the first human rights agreement for disabled people, and it is legally binding. For those states who signed it, it also brings various governmental obligations. Implementing the CRPD will clearly be politically challenging and also very expensive for all states, but even more so for poor ones.

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A LOOK INTO THE HISTORY OF THE PREPARATION OF LOCAL PROFESSIONALS IN THE INDUSTRY

Journal of look to the past ◽

10.26739/2181-9599-2019-26-01 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 26 (2) ◽

pp. 4-8

Author(s):

Toshkentboy Pardaev ◽

◽

Zhavli Tursunov

Keyword(s):

Evidence Based ◽

Local Policy ◽

Soviet Government ◽

Policy Makers ◽

History Of

In the article : In the second half of the 20 century the process of preparation of local experts in South Uzbekistan industry changes in this field a clear evidence-based analysis of the problematic processes that resulted from the discriminatory policy toward the Soviet government-dominated local policy makers

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Transferability of Research Findings: Lessons From the BCURE (Building Capacity for the Use of Research Evidence) Program for Implementing EBPM (Evidence-Based Policy Making) in Non-Western Countries

SSRN Electronic Journal ◽

10.2139/ssrn.3296169 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Joseph Tham

Keyword(s):

Policy Making ◽

Research Evidence ◽

Evidence Based ◽

Building Capacity ◽

Western Countries ◽

Evidence Based Policy ◽

Research Findings ◽

Use Of Research

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Relevance of Evidence-Based Policy Making (EBPM) for Governance (Public Administration) in Non-Western Countries: Lessons From the BCURE (Building Capacity to Use Research Evidence) Program

SSRN Electronic Journal ◽

10.2139/ssrn.3296167 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Joseph Tham

Keyword(s):

Public Administration ◽

Policy Making ◽

Research Evidence ◽

Evidence Based ◽

Building Capacity ◽

Western Countries ◽

Evidence Based Policy

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India

10.1093/oso/9780198786627.003.0007 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Shreya Atrey

Keyword(s):

Human Rights ◽

Final Analysis ◽

Case Law ◽

Social Model ◽

Disability Rights ◽

Appellate Courts ◽

Persons With Disabilities ◽

High Courts ◽

The Supreme Court ◽

Domestic Law

This chapter provides an expository account of Indian appellate courts’ engagement with the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and the developing case law on disability rights. As a dualist State, India has ratified but not incorporated the CRPD into its domestic law. This has not deterred frequent references to the CRPD in litigation at the highest level. The appellate courts—High Courts and the Supreme Court—have resorted to the CRPD in diverse ways. The analysis of the small but not insignificant body of case law shows that these instances can be classified into two broad themes of ‘citation’ and ‘interpretation’. In the final analysis, the overall impact of references to the CRPD can be considered largely positive but still modest in the absence of new legislation embracing the human rights framework and social model of the CRPD in India.

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Children with Disabilities: Achievements, Prospects, and Challenges Ahead

The Oxford Handbook of Children's Rights Law ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190097608.013.29 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 593-613

Author(s):

Maya Sabatello ◽

Mary Frances Layden

Keyword(s):

Human Rights ◽

Inclusive Education ◽

Final Section ◽

Children With Disabilities ◽

Vulnerable Groups ◽

Disability Rights ◽

The World ◽

Child Friendly ◽

State Of Affairs ◽

Successes And Challenges

Children with disabilities are among the most vulnerable groups in the world—and a children’s rights approach is key for reversing historical wrongs and for promoting an inclusive future. To establish this argument, this chapter explores the state of affairs and legal protections for upholding the rights of children with disabilities. It critically examines major developments in the international framework that pertain to the rights of children with disabilities, and it considers some of the prime achievements—and challenges—that arise in the implementation of a child-friendly disability rights agenda. The chapter then zooms in on two particularly salient issues for children with disabilities, namely, inclusive education and deinstitutionalization, and highlights the successes and challenges ahead. The final section provides some concluding thoughts about the present and the prospect of upholding the human rights of children with disabilities.

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