UN convention on the rights of persons with disabilities

European Journal of Health Law

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 273-298

  Hendriks, Aart ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION DISORDER; DISABLED PERSON; EUROPEAN UNION; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HUMAN RIGHTS; NOTE; PATIENT AUTONOMY; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; UNITED NATIONS;

CONGRESSES AS TOPIC; DISABLED PERSONS; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HUMAN RIGHTS; HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; PUBLIC POLICY; SOCIAL JUSTICE; UNITED NATIONS;

EID: 35848947439     PISSN: 09290273     EISSN: 15718093     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/092902707X240620     Document Type: Note

References (14)

1. Resolution A/RES/61/06.
2. Eva Kittay, 'Disability, 'Equal Dignity and Care', Concilium 2003, 105-115.
3. Jerome E. Bickenbach, 'Minority Rights of Universal Participation: the Politics of Disablement', in: Melinda Jones & Lee Ann Basser Marks (eds.), Disability, Divers-Ability and Legal Change, The Hague-Boston-London: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers 1999, p. 101-116.
4. Lisa Waddington, 'Evolving disability policies: from social-welfare to human rights: an international trend from a European perspective', Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights 2001, p. 141-165.
5. Resolution A/RES/48/95.
6. Resolution A/RES/56/168.
7. Cf. Asbjorn Eide, The new international economic order and the promotion of human rights, Report by the special rapporteur on the right to food, UN Doc. E/CN.4/Sub.2/1987/23.
8. Aart Hendriks, 'Different Definitions - Same Problems - One Way Out?', Mary Lou Breslin & Silvia Yee, Disability Rights Law and Policy. International and National Perspectives, Ardsley, NY: Transnational Publishers 2002, p. 195-220 (199-203).
9. http://www.un.org/disabilities/convention/questions.shtml#seven [visited 10 July 2007].
10. Lisa Waddington & Aart Hendriks, 'The Expanding Concept of Employment Discrimination in Europe: From Direct and Indirect Discrimination to Reasonable Accommodation Discrimination', International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations 2002, p. 403-427.
11. Peter Bartlett, Oliver Lewis & Oliver Thorold (eds.), Mental Disability and the European Convention on Human Rights, Leiden-Boston: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers 2007.
12. B.J.M. Frederiks, 'The Rights of People with an Intellectual Disability in the Netherlands: from Restriction to Development', European Journal of Health Law 2007, 1-15.
13. Aart Hendriks, 'Autonomy: a Warrant for or Threat to Good (Care for) Health?', in: Ineke Boerefijn & Jenny Goldschmidt (eds.), Human Rights in the Polder, Antwerp-Oxford: Intersentia 2007 (forthcoming).
14. For an example of measures States could make, see Recommendation Rec(2006)5 of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe on the Council of Europe's Plan to promote the rights and full participation of people with disabilities in society: improving the quality of life of people with disabilities in Europe 2006-2015.