The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Subtitle: European and Scandinavian perspectives
By: edited by Oddny Mjoll Arnardottir and Gerard Quinn.
Contributors: Oddný Mjöll Arnardóttir.; Quinn, G.
Series: International studies in human rights -- v. 100
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789004169715
Subjects: Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Optional Protocol -- (2007); People with disabilities -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Europe; People with disabilities -- Civil rights -- Europe; People with disabilities -- Government policy -- Europe; Human rights -- Europe
Other titles: United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Disability studies, the social model and legal developments / Rannveig Traustadottir; title: Future prospects for the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities / Michael Ashley Stein and Janet E. Lord; title: A future of multidimensional disadvantage equality? / Oddny Mjoll Arnardottir; title: From invisibility to indivisibility : the international Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities / Ida Elisabeth Koch; title: The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and European disability law : a catalyst for cohesion? / Anna Lawson; title: Breaking new ground : the implications of ratification of the UN Convention on the   Rights of Persons with Disabilities for the European community / Lisa Waddington; title: The protection of the rights of persons with disabilities in the case law of the European Court of Human Rights / Davi? ?or Bjorgvinsson; title: Extracting protection for the rights of persons with disabilities from human rights frameworks : established limits and new possibilities / Colm O'Cinneide; title: General themes relevant to the implementation of the UN disability convention into domestic law : who is responsible for the implementation and how should it be performed? / Holger Kallehauge; title: Resisting the 'temptation of elegance' : can the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities socialise states to right behaviour? / Gerard Quinn; title: The implementation of the UN convention and the development of economical and social rights as human rights / Brynhildur G. Flovenz; title: The UN convention in nordic domestic law : lessons learned from other treaties / Ragnhildur Helgadottir.