NEW PUBLICATION FROM VIKE !
(The Center for Human Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Finland)
United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
– Multidisciplinary Perspectives
Jukka Kumpuvuori and Martin Scheinin (eds.)
Published in late-November 2009!
‘United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities – Multidisciplinary Perspectives’ traces the entry into force of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The book offers a number of fresh approaches to disability studies and disability rights by exploring the lives of persons with disabilities from multiple perspectives. It provides the reader with an insightful reading experience on the contemporary topics of disability studies and disability rights.
The book can be utilized as introductory material for anyone who wants to get familiar with disability rights. The book can well serve as material for disability rights teaching and autonomous individual studies.
Please see the Table of Contents below and place your pre-order via e-mail to jukka.kumpuvuori@abo.fi. The pre-order price for the book is 25 € including the book itself and a fixed delivery cost. This price is available only for pre-orders received before 1 December 2009. Beginning from 1 December 2009, the price of the book will be 30 € (inc. delivery). Form of payment: Invoice delivered with the book.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PART I: UN CRPD – WHY AND WHAT?
Chapter 1: The Special Reaching for the Universal: Why a Special Convention for Persons with Disabilities?
Jarna Petman
Chapter 2: UN CRPD and the Human Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Pentti Arajärvi
PART II: ‘TRADITIONAL’ DISABILITY RIGHTS AND THE UN CRPD
Chapter 3: Treating the Different Ones Differently – a Vehicle for Equality for Persons with Disabilities? Implications of Article 5 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Jukka Kumpuvuori and Martin Scheinin
Chapter 4: The Changing Relationship between Disability and Education
Joel Kivirauma and Matti Laitinen
Chapter 5: Teachers’ and Students’ Awareness of and Attitudes towards the Concept of Inclusion Exemplified in Article 24 of the UN CRPD
Jeyaprathaban Sujathamalini
Chapter 6: The Right to “Decent Work” of Persons with Disabilities: Article 27 of the Convention and the Case of Uganda
Edson Ngirabakunzi and Hisayo Katsui
PART III: PARTICIPATION OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES
Chapter 7: Towards Participation of Persons with Disabilities from the South: Implications of Article 32 of the Convention
Hisayo Katsui
Chapter 8: Barriers to the Inclusion of Disabled People in Disability Policy-Making in Seven African Countries
Raymond Lang and Ambrose Murangira
PART IV: NEW TRENDS IN DISABILITY RIGHTS
Chapter 9: Realizing the Right to Adequate Food for People with Disabilities in Uganda
Emmanuel K. Kanyemibwa
Chapter 10: Achieving Human Security through Political Advocacy: Linking Ugandan and Finnish DPO Advocacy Work to Article 14 of the UN CRPD
Jukka Kumpuvuori and Hisayo Katsui
Chapter 11: Participatory Justice, the UN Disability Human Rights Convention, and the Right to Participate in Sport, Recreation, and Play
Janet E. Lord and Michael Ashley Stein
Chapter 12: Mental Health Law and Human Rights: Evolution, Challenges and the Promise of the New Convention
Michael Perlin and Éva Szeli
Chapter 13: Persons with Deafblindness in Light of International Agreements
Riku Virtanen
Chapter 14: From Devil’s Seed to Disabled God – Disability and the Human Rights Approach on the Bible Studies and Practices of Christian Communities
Amu Urhonen
Chapter 15: Restrictions of Sexual and Reproductive Rights – The Case of Uzbeki Women with Disabilities
Feruza Zagirtdinova
2.10.09
Welcome to Join "Human Rights and Disability" University Course in Finland!!
This is an undergraduate university course (intermediate level) equals to 5 credits. Organiser is the Institute for Human Rights at Åbo Akademi University (the project members are also lecturers!). It is composed of 18 hours lectures + 4 hours moot court participation.
Place: Educarium (Assistentinkatu 5, Turku), Lecture Room 2. (Exception on 2 December: PharmaCity (Itäinen Pitkäkatu 4 b), Lecture Room 1)
Target Audience: Students of Law, Social Sciences or other related fields. Researchers interested in the theme.
NOTE: Observers outside the academic environment, e.g. staff of organisations of persons with disabilities are warmly welcome to apply for observer-status or full participant status. Please send your 1/2 page letter of interest to jukka.kumpuvuori(at)abo.fi by 18.November the latest. Course materials are not distributed to participants with observer status. Observers will not gain study points for attending the course. Observers are allowed to participate only to lecture sessions of the course.
Registration: Please e-mail to jukka.kumpuvuori(at)abo.fi by 18 November the latest. Please indicate in your e-mail if you have any disability-related or other needs you want to be accommodated during the course.
TIME TABLE OF THE COURSE
16 Handing out the take-home exam (Jukka Kumpuvuori & Edson Ngirabakunzi)
10-12 Equality and Non-Discrimination in the Context of Disability – an International Perspective (Michael Stein)
13-15 Equality and Non-Discrimination in the Context of Disability – the European Community Perspective (Lisa Waddington)
15-16 Round Table on Equality and Non-Discrimination (Lecturers of the Course & Actors of Local Disability Organisations)
Wednesday 2 December
11-16:30 Seminar on Human Rights and Persons with Disabilities in Higher Education (program is available by e-mail.) Organised and sponsored by the University of Turku and Åbo Akademi University.
Thursday 3 December
Seminar in Helsinki on Preparation Work of the Finnish Disability Policy (Participation is voluntary. Travel cost is not covered by the course organiser).
13-15 Practical Implications of Human Rights in the Daily Life of a Person with a Disability (Zachary Kaddu and Riku Virtanen)
Monday 7 December
9 E-mail –returns of the take-home exam by 9 a.m.
15 – 18 Preparations for the Moot Court in groups
10-14 Moot Court + Debriefing of the take-home exam
15 Closing the course
[1] Moot Court is an exercise in which participants take part in simulated court proceedings by drafting briefs and participating in oral argumentation.
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