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essays and relevant human rights instruments
Introduction / Frank Newman -- Disabled persons and human rights : the legal framework / Theresia Degener -- The significance of equality and non-discrimination for the protection of the rights and dignity of disabled persons / Aart Hendriks -- Standard rules in the disability field -- a new United Nations instrument / Bengt Lindqvist -- The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and disability : a conceptual framework / Gerard Quinn -- Disability and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights / Philip Alston -- A European right to employment for disabled people? / Lisa Waddington -- The right of disabled persons not to be subjected to torture, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment / Manfred Nowak, Walter Suntinger -- The right to health for people with disabilities / Katarina Tomasevski -- The rights of disabled children -- the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child / Thomas Hammarberg -- Instruments : United Nations Human Rights Division -- International Labour Organization -- World Health Organization -- UNESCO -- European region -- American region -- African region.
edited by Theresia Degener and Yolan Koster-Dreese.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Donated by Virginia and James Wiley '46 for the Jayne and William Mobley Collection in Presidential Studies.
International studies in human rights ; v. 40