Human rights and disabled persons : essays and relevant human rights instruments / edited by Theresia Degener and Yolan Koster-Dreese.
1995
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Title
Human rights and disabled persons : essays and relevant human rights instruments / edited by Theresia Degener and Yolan Koster-Dreese.
Published
Dordrecht ; Boston : M. Nijhoff, [1995]
Distributed
Norwell, MA, U.S.A. : Sold and distributed in the U.S.A. and Canada by Kluwer Academic Publishers
Copyright
©1995
Call Number
JX4263.P3 H8816 1995
ISBN
0792332989 (alk. paper)
Description
xiv, 757 pages ; 25 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)31604871
Note
"Federatie Nederlandse Gehandicaptenraad."
Includes "U.N.'s Standard Rules on the Equalization of Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities (adopted on 20 December 1993 by the U.N. General Assembly)."
Includes "U.N.'s Standard Rules on the Equalization of Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities (adopted on 20 December 1993 by the U.N. General Assembly)."
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction / Frank Newman
3
Disabled persons and human rights: the legal framework / Theresia Degener
9
The significance of equality and non-discrimination for the protection of the rights and dignity of disabled persons / Aart Hendriks
40
Standard Rules in the disability field - a new United Nations instrument / Bengt Lindqvist
63
The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and disability: a conceptual framework / Gerard Quinn
69
Disability and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights / Philip Alston
94
A European right to employment for disabled people? / Lisa Waddington
106
The right of disabled persons not to be subjected to torture, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment / Manfred Nowak Walter Suntinger
117
The right to health for people with disabilities / Katarina Tomasevski
131
The rights of disabled children - the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child / Thomas Hammarberg
147
United Nations Human Rights Division
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1966)
159
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (1966)
184
Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989)
198
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (1965)
225
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (1979)
242
Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (1984)
259
Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)
277
Standard Rules on the Equalization of Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities (1993)
285
World Programme of Action concerning Disabled Persons (1982)
320
Declaration on the Rights of Mentally Retarded Persons (1971)
371
Declaration on the Rights of Disabled Persons (1975)
373
Principles for the Protection of Persons with Mental Illness and the Improvement of Mental Health Care (1991)
376
Tallinn Guidelines for Action on Human Resources Development in the Field of Disability (1990)
392
Body of Principles for the Protection of all Persons under Any Form of Detention or Imprisonment (1988)
402
Principles of Medical Ethics relevant to the Role of Health Personnel, particularly Physicians, in the Protection of Prisoners and Detainees against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (1982)
414
Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women (1993)
416
Declaration on the Right to Development (1986)
423
Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action (1993)
429
International Labour Organization
Convention concerning Discrimination in Respect of Employment and Occupation, No. 111 (1958)
446
Convention concerning Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment (Disabled Persons), Convention No. 159 (1983)
452
Convention concerning Vocational Guidance and Vocational Training in the Development of Human Resources, Convention No. 142 (1975)
458
Recommendation concerning Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment (Disabled Persons), Recommendation No. 168 (1983)
463
Recommendation concerning Vocational Rehabilitation of the Disabled, Recommendation No. 99 (1955)
475
Recommendation concerning Vocational Guidance and Vocational Training in the Development of Human Resources, Recommendation No. 150 (1975)
488
World Health Organization
Declaration of Alma Ata (1978)
523
Declaration on the Promotion of Patients' Rights in Europe (1994)
527
UNESCO
Convention against Discrimination in Education (1960)
544
Sundberg Declaration (1981)
553
World Declaration on Education for All (1990)
559
European Region
European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (1950)
569
First Protocol to the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (1952)
591
European Convention for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (1987)
594
European Social Charter (1961)
604
Additional Protocol to the European Social Charter (1988)
629
Protocol amending the European Social Charter (1991)
640
American Region
American Convention on Human Rights (1969)
646
Additional Protocol to the American Convention on Human Rights in the Area of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (1988)
679
African Region
African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights (1981)
692
Notes on the contributors
Abbreviations
Index