Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Subtitle: A Commentary
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1440
ISBN-13: 9780198810667
Subjects: People with disabilities, civil rights; People with disabilities, legal status, laws, etc.; Discrimination against people with disabilities
Description: This treatise is a detailed article-by-article examination of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Each article of the CRPD contains a methodical analysis of the preparatory works, followed by an exhaustive examination of the contents of each article based on case law and concluding observations from the CRPD Committee, judgments from national and international courts and tribunals, pertinent UN and other reports, the key literature on the article under review.0The volume features commentary from a broad range of scholars across a variety of disciplines in order to provide a comprehensive study of the legal, psychological, education, sociological, and other aspects of the CPRD. This encyclopaedic commentary on the CRPD effectively covers all the issues arising from international disability law and practice, and will be an ideal resource for all working in the field.