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
Representation of the Research Team Members
Elina Pirjatanniemi, LL. D., Professor of Constitutional and International Law, Director of the Institute for Human Rights, Åbo Akademi University. Project Leader (Turku, Finland, elina.pirjatanniemi (at) abo.fi)
Martin Scheinin, Dr. Iuris, Professor of Public International Law, European University Institute, Law Department. Project Leader (Florence, Italy, martin.scheinin (at) eui.eu)
Hisayo Katsui, PhD, Senior Researcher: I am a Japanese researcher interested in disability, civil society, human rights and development. The ultimate goal of my research is to contribute to the
equality and equal opportunity of disabled people particularly in the South.
(Helsinki, Finland, katsui (at) mappi.helsinki.fi)
Please visit Hisayo's own web site
Jukka Kumpuvuori, LL. M., Researcher, Doctoral Candidate: I am Finnish researcher and a disability activist. I have a strong interest in the academic field of human right and disability and I have prepared quite several reports in this fields. I am also active in the DPO-world both nationally and internationally and I also have a strong interest in the development cooperation that relates to disabled persons. I am my self a wheelchair user. Everything that relates to human rights and disability...I'm there!
(Turku, Finland, jukka.kumpuvuori (at) abo.fi)
Edson Ngirabakunzi, MA, Researcher, Doctoral Candidate: I am a Ugandan disability activist with high level interest in disability and development issues. I have advocated for the rights of persons with disabilities in Uganda at national and local levels. This has been to ensure that disability needs and concerns become part of the development process in Uganda. I have been in the disability movement for the last 8 years as a key player. I have keen and strong interest in seeing how legislations take care and multiplier effect in the lives of disabled persons. I have participated in policy reviews and evaluations at ministerial levels. I have participated in a number of strategic meetings with line ministries and district local governments raising disability as key issue of concern in the development process. It is my firm conviction that once policies and programmes targeting disabled persons are judiciously followed and implemented then they would greatly contribute to making world a better place to live in and therefore humanity would boast of development for all.
(Kampala, Uganda, ngirabakunziedson (at) yahoo.com)