Background Legal empowerment of the poor is highly relevant to public health as it aims to relieve income poverty, a main determinant of health. The Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor (CLEP) has proposed legal empowerment measures in the following four domains: access to justice and the rule of law, property, labor, and business rights. Despite being overrepresented among the poor, CLE...

This article illuminates the work inclusion policies and strategies situation today when it comes to including people with intellectual disabilities in workplaces Iceland, Norway, Sweden. The draws on official documents, previous research, statistics. We discuss challenges regarding current light of United Nations Convention Rights Persons Disabilities (CRPD) a social relational understanding d...

Driven by anti-discrimination laws and a desire to promote human rights, universities have made strategic efforts support their students with disabilities provided some staff disabilities. However, persons are not visible in senior leadership positions universities. It is time for change. The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons Disabilities (CRPD) has established new rights expectations that...

The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) is a modern human rights treaty with innovative components. It impacts on disability studies as well as human rights law. Two innovations are scrutinized in this article: the model of disability and the equality and discrimination concepts of the CRPD. It is argued that the CRPD manifests a shift from the medical model to the huma...

Access to justice is an essential human right and a cornerstone of the rule law. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development seeks to, amongst other things, promote law ensure equal access justice, peaceful inclusive societies sustainable development, provide all, build effective, accountable, institutions. As marginalised group, persons with disabilities are often spectators their grievances w...

Ideally, as put across by the Disability & Human Rights guide, Convention on of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) does not give a detailed description disability but rather gives wide range features that intend describe disability. The truth is, despite being incapacitated in certain way, people living disabilities should be given same opportunities those without. Our separate literature ana...

This article reports findings from the first set of qualitative data a study aimed to further understand practices decision support for people with cognitive disabilities and assess impact training supporters in an evidence-based practice framework. It poses questions about whether, using Convention on Rights Persons Disabilities (CRPD) as benchmark, it is possible identify purchase points asse...

BACKGROUND Uganda has embraced inclusive education and evidently committed itself to bringing about disability inclusion at every level of education. Both legal and non-legal frameworks have been adopted and arguably are in line with the intent of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) on education. The CRPD, in Article 24, requires states to attain a right to educatio...