Disability Rights and Inclusiveness in Africa: The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, challenges and change

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Disability Rights and Inclusiveness in Africa

The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, challenges and change

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Edited by Jeff D. Grischow, Magnus Mfoafo-M'Carthy, Wilfrid Laurier University, Ontario

Publisher:: Boydell & Brewer
Online publication date:: October 2022
Print publication year:: 2022
Online ISBN:: 9781800103825
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781800103825

Subjects:: Law, Human Rights
Series:: African Issues

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Grassroots researchers examine the barriers and ways of implementing the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) in Africa.

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Disability Rights and Inclusiveness in Africa

The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, challenges and change

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

List of Illustrations
pp vii-viii

Notes on Contributors
pp ix-xii

Acknowledgements
pp xiii-xiv

List of Abbreviations
pp xv-xviii

Introduction
pp 1-20

1 - Framing Disability Rights within African Human Rights Movements
pp 21-40

2 - Legislation as a Care Institution? The CRPD and Rights of Adults with Intellectual Disabilities in South Africa
pp 41-78

3 - Examining the Implementation of Inclusive Education in Zimbabwe
pp 79-102

4 - Barriers to the Implementation of Education Article 24 of the CRPD in Kenya
pp 103-130

5 - A Disabled Disability Movement: The Paradox of Participation in Uganda
pp 131-148

6 - Implementation of the CRPD in Ethiopia: Grassroots Perspectives from the University of Gondar Community-Based Rehabilitation Programme
pp 149-170

7 - Knowledge and Utilization of the CRPD and Personswith Disability Act 715 of Ghana among Deaf People
pp 171-192

8 - CRPD Article 6 – Vulnerabilities of Women with Disabilities: Recommendations for the Disability Movement and Other Stakeholders in Ghana
pp 193-210

9 - Assessing the Benefits of the CRPD in Cameroon: The Experience of Persons with Disabilities in the Buea Municipality
pp 211-230

10 - African Ontology, Albinism, and Human Rights
pp 231-246

Conclusion
pp 247-262

Index
pp 263-277

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