RESOURCES: Campaigns, laws, news, publications on disability rights

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The First Human Rights Convention of the 21st Century (Violeta Krasnic)

These videos, available on the Hub - Witness, focus on efforts to end segregation and discrimination of persons with disabilities. In Living Proof, the right to live in the community is asserted. Mental Disability Rights International’s video from Paraguay played a pivotal role in reforming the country’s mental health services. In Yemen, children with disabilities write the first child friendly version of the Convention.

Association for Promoting Inclusion (API) Living Proof – the right to live in the community
http://hub.witness.org/node/165#related_media
Human Rights and Education - Save the Children – Yemen
http://hub.witness.org/en/node/5228
Disability Rights Advocate Hails the New UN Convention
http://hub.witness.org/en/node/5244
Paraguay's Mental Health System - Mental Disability Rights International
http://hub.witness.org/en/ParaguayMentalHealth

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Laws

International instruments which can be used to challenge breaches of the rights of children with disabilities:

UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its Optional Protocol
Articles 2 and 23 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
Inter-American Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Persons with Disabilities
Article 13 of the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child
Article 18 of the African Charter on Human and People's Rights
Article 15 of the European Social Charter

Case law

European Court of Human Rights judgement: Disability/ Sexual Abuse: X and Y v the Netherlands
European Social Committee decisions: Discrimination: International Association Autism-Europe (IAAE) v. France (July 2002)

For more information on legal tools and where to use them, see our legal guide and database.

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News

UK: UN Convention campaign coalition calls for government ratification without reservation (9 May 2008)
http://www.crin.org/resources/infoDetail.asp?ID=17259&flag=news

Mexico: Legal opinion on article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (in Spanish)
http://www.crin.org/resources/infoDetail.asp?ID=17003&flag=report

Kosovo: Advocacy groups shape Constitution to protect disability rights (7 May 2008)
http://www.crin.org/resources/infoDetail.asp?ID=17290&flag=news

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Publications

Mainstreaming disability rights in the development agenda (UN Commission for Social Development, February 2008)

South Asia: Review of the CRC Concluding Observations – Non-discrimination, disability and ethnic rights Save the Children Sweden – South Asia (April 2008)

Central America: A guide to combating all forms of discrimination against children and young people - in Spanish (Save the Children Sweden – Regional Programme for Latin America and the Caribbean, May 2008). This publication includes a report on discrimination against children with disabilities in Nicaragua.

From Exclusion to Equality - realising the rights of persons with disabilities (Inter-Parliamentary Union, IPU, October 2007)

Promoting the Rights of Children with Disabilities (UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, October 2007)

Torment not Treatment: Serbia’s Segregation and Abuse of Children and Adults with Disabilities (Mental Disability Rights International, October 2007)

Disability: Education's Missing Millions (World Vision, September 2007)

The new disability Convention and the protection of children (Gerison Lansdown, December 2006)

Investigative Report Regarding the "Ashley Treatment" (Disability Rights Washington, May 2007)

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