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UN CONVENTION ON THE
RIGHTS OF PERSONS WITH
DISABILITIES, 2006.
Embracing Inclusive Approaches for
Children and Youth with Special
Education Needs: Delivering on the
Promise of the UN Convention on the
Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
WHAT IS THE UNCRPD?
The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is an
international agreement which came into force on 3 May 2008. It
confirms that people with disabilities have the same human rights
as everyone else and binds countries to protect those rights.
WHY A CONVENTION NECESSARY?
Approximately 10% of the world’s population have a
disability. Although existing human rights treaties apply to
everyone, including people with disabilities, there is evidence
that disabled people around the world encounter a range of
physical and social obstacles, preventing them from:
receiving an education;
obtaining a job;
accessing information;
obtaining proper health care;
getting around; and
 being accepted by society.
CONVENTION TIMELINE
 Adoption by the United Nations General Assembly -
13 December 2006
 Opened for signature - 30 March 2007
 Entry into force – 3 May 2008
 First Conference of States Parties – 31 October & 3
November 2008
 Second Conference of States Parties – 2 – 4
September 2009
 First session of the Committee on the Rights of
Persons with Disabilities – 23-27 February 2008
RELATIONSHIP TO OTHER
DISABILITY TEXTS
The Convention builds upon, and works in synergy
with previous international texts related to persons
with disabilities:
Standard Rules on the Equalization of Opportunities
for Persons with Disabilities - 1994 (not a legally
binding treaty)
World Program of Action on Disabled Persons - 1982
(not a legally binding treaty)
WHY A CONVENTION NECESSARY?
A response to an overlooked development challenge:
approximately 10% of the world’s population are persons
with disabilities (over 650 million persons).
Approximately 80% of whom live in developing
countries
A response to the fact that although pre-existing human
rights conventions offer considerable potential to
promote and protect the rights of persons with
disabilities, this potential was not being tapped. Persons
with disabilities continued being denied their human
rights and were kept on the margins of society in all parts
of the world. The Convention sets out the legal
obligations on States to promote and protect the rights of
persons with disabilities. It does not create new rights.
A PARADIGM SHIFT
The Convention marks a ‘paradigm shift’ in attitudes
and approaches to persons with disabilities.
Persons with disabilities are not viewed as
"objects" of charity, medical treatment and social
protection; rather as "subjects" with rights, who are
capable of claiming those rights and making decisions
for their lives based on their free and informed consent
as well as being active members of society.
The Convention gives universal recognition to the
dignity of persons with disabilities.
WHAT IS UNIQUE ABOUT THE
CONVENTION?
Both a development and a human rights instrument
A policy instrument which is cross-disability and cross-sectoral
Legally binding
WHAT IS DISABILITY?
The Convention does not explicitly define disability
Preamble of Convention states:
‘Disability is an evolving concept, and that disability
results from the interaction between persons with
impairments and attitudinal and environmental barriers
that hinders full and effective participation in society
on an equal basis with others’
Article 1 of the Convention states:
‘Persons with disabilities include those who have
long-term physical, mental, intellectual or sensory
impairments which in interaction with various barriers
may hinder their full and effective participation in
society on an equal basis with others’.
WHAT IS DISABILITY?
Disability results from an interaction between a non-
inclusive society and individuals:
Person using a wheelchair might have difficulties
gaining employment not because of the wheelchair,
but because there are environmental barriers such as
inaccessible buses or staircases which impede access
Person with extreme near-sightedness who does not
have access to corrective lenses may not be able to
perform daily tasks. This same person with
prescription eyeglasses would be able to perform all
tasks without problems.
PURPOSE OF CONVENTION
(ARTICLE 1)
To promote, protect and ensure the full and equal enjoyment of
all human rights and fundamental freedoms by all persons with
disabilities, and to promote respect for their inherent dignity.
(The UNCRPD is the only international legal instrument for
person with disabilities)
CONVENTION STRUCTURE
Preamble
1. Purpose
2. Definitions
3. General principles
4. General obligations
5. Equality and non-discrimination
6. Women with disabilities
7. Children with disabilities
8. Awareness-raising
9. Accessibility
10. Right to life
11. Situations of risk and humanitarian emergencies
CONVENTION STRUCTURE
12. Equal recognition before the law
13. Access to justice
14. Liberty and security of the person
15. Freedom from torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading
treatment or punishment
16. Freedom from exploitation, violence and abuse
17. Protecting the integrity of the person
18. Liberty of movement and nationality
19. Living independently and being included in the
community
CONVENTION STRUCTURE
20. Personal mobility
21. Freedom of expression and opinion, and access to
information
22. Respect for privacy
23. Respect for home and the family
24. Education
25. Health
26. Habilitation and rehabilitation
27. Work and employment
28. Adequate standard of living and social protection
29. Participation in political and public life
CONVENTION STRUCTURE
30. Participation in cultural life, recreation, leisure
and sport
31. Statistics and data collection
32. International cooperation
33. National implementation and monitoring
34 to 40. International monitoring mechanism
41 to 50. Final clauses
Optional protocol
RIGHTS IN UN CRPD
The UNCRPD identifies 6 civil and political rights, and 12
economic, social and cultural rights to be enjoyed by all persons
with disabilities without discrimination of gender, socio-
economic or rural- urban status.
RIGHTS IN THE CONVENTION
Equality before the law without discrimination
(article 5)
Right to life, liberty and security of the person with
disabilities (articles 10 & 14)
Equal recognition before the law and legal capacity
(article 12)
Freedom from torture (article 15)
Freedom from exploitation, violence and abuse
(article 16)
Right to respect physical and mental integrity
(article 17)
RIGHTS IN THE CONVENTION
Freedom of movement and nationality (article 18)
Right to live in the community (article 19)
Freedom of expression and opinion (article 21)
Respect for privacy (article 22)
Respect for home and the family (article 23)
Right to education (article 24)
Right to health (article 25)
Right to work (article 27)
RIGHTS IN THE CONVENTION
Right to adequate standard of living (article 28)
Right to participate in political and public life (article 29)
Right to participation in cultural life (article 30)
The rest of the 50 Articles are concerned with implementation,
reports and monitoring.
GUIDING PRINCIPLES
Full and
effective
participation
and inclusion
Respect for
dignity,
autonomy
Equality of
opportunity
Equality
between men
and women
Non-
discrimination
Accessibility Respect for
difference, human
diversity
Evolving capacities of children
GENERAL PRINCIPLES (ARTICLE
3)
Respect for inherent dignity, individual autonomy
including the freedom to make one’s own choices, and
independence of persons
Non-discrimination
Full and effective participation and inclusion in society
Respect for difference and acceptance of persons with
disabilities as part of human diversity and humanity
Equality of opportunity
Accessibility
Equality between men and women
Respect for the evolving capacities of children with
GENERAL PRINCIPLES:
PARTICIPATION AND
INCLUSION
Participation is important to correctly identify
specific needs, and to empower the individual
Full and effective participation and inclusion in
society is recognized in the Convention as:
A general principle (article 3)
A general obligation (article 4)
A right (articles 29 and 30)
GENERAL PRINCIPLES:
NON-DISCRIMINATION
Fundamental principle of international human rights
law
Includes direct and indirect discrimination
reasonable accommodation must be made for persons
with disabilities
reasonable accommodation: ‘necessary and appropriate
modification and adjustments not imposing a
disproportionate or undue burden, where needed in a
particular case, to ensure to persons with disabilities the
enjoyment or exercise on an equal basis with others of all
human rights and fundamental freedoms’
GENERAL PRINCIPLES:
ACCESSIBILITY
Important as a means to empowerment and inclusion
Both a general principle and a stand-alone article (article 9)
Access must be ensured to:
Justice (article 13)
Living independently and being included in the community
(article 19)
Information and communication services (article 21)
Education (article 24)
Health (article 25)
Habilitation and rehabilitation (article 26)
Work and employment (article 27) - human resource policies and
practices
Adequate standard of living and social protection (article 28)
Participation in political and social life (article 29)
Participation in cultural life, recreation, leisure and sport (article 30)
ARTICLE-24, & INCLUSIVE
EDUCATION
Article 24 of the UN Convention on the Rights of
Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) protects the right to
education of persons with disabilities. It proclaims the
right to inclusive education and prescribes the steps that
have to be taken to this end.
Article 24 of the CRPD provides not only that children
with disabilities should not be discriminated against but
also that they should be able to participate in the general
education system.
ARTICLE-24, & INCLUSIVE
EDUCATION
1.States Parties recognize the right of persons with
disabilities to education. With a view to realizing this
right without discrimination and on the basis of equal
opportunity, States Parties shall ensure an inclusive
education system at all levels and lifelong learning
directed to:
(a)The full development of human potential and sense
of dignity and self-worth, and the strengthening of
respect for human rights, fundamental freedoms and
human diversity;
CONTI…
(b)The development by persons with disabilities of
their personality, talents and creativity, as well as
their mental and physical abilities, to their fullest
potential;
(c) Enabling persons with disabilities to participate
effectively in a free society.
2.In realizing this right, States Parties shall ensure
that:
CONTI..
(a) Persons with disabilities are not excluded from the general education
system on the basis of disability, and that children with disabilities are
not excluded from free and compulsory primary education, or from
secondary education, on the basis of disability;
(b) Persons with disabilities can access an inclusive, quality and free
primary education and secondary education on an equal basis
with others in the communities in which they live;
CONTI..
(c) Reasonable accommodation of the individual's
requirements is provided;
(d) Persons with disabilities receive the support
required, within the general education system, to
facilitate their effective education;
(e) Effective individualized support measures are
provided in environments that maximize academic
and social development, consistent with the goal of
full inclusion.
CONTI..
3 States Parties shall enable persons with disabilities
to learn life and social development skills to facilitate
their full and equal participation in education and as
members of the community. To this end, States
Parties shall take appropriate measures, including:
(a) Facilitating the learning of Braille, alternative
script, augmentative and alternative modes, means
and formats of communication and orientation and
mobility skills, and facilitating peer support and
mentoring;
(b) Facilitating the learning of sign language
and the promotion of the linguistic identity of
the deaf community;
CONTI..
(b) Facilitating the learning of sign language and the
promotion of the linguistic identity of the deaf
community;
(c) Ensuring that the education of persons, and in
particular children, who are blind, deaf or deaf-blind,
is delivered in the most appropriate languages and
modes and means of communication for the
individual, and in environments which maximize
academic and social development.
CONTI..
4.In order to help ensure the realization of this right,
States Parties shall take appropriate measures to
employ teachers, including teachers with disabilities,
who are qualified in sign language and/or Braille, and
to train professionals and staff who work at all levels
of education. Such training shall incorporate disability
awareness and the use of appropriate augmentative
and alternative modes, means and formats of
communication, educational techniques and materials
to support persons with disabilities.
CONTI..
5. States Parties shall ensure that persons with
disabilities are able to access general tertiary
education, vocational training, adult education
and lifelong learning without discrimination and
on an equal basis with others. To this end, States
Parties shall ensure that reasonable
accommodation is provided to persons with
disabilities.
CONCLUSION:
In the past, disabled people have been perceived as
individuals who require protection and evoke sympathy
rather than respect. This Convention is a major step
towards changing the perception of disability and
ensures that societies recognize that all people must be
provided with the opportunities to live life to their
fullest potential.
The Convention protects the rights of all people with
disabilities in all areas of life including access to justice,
personal mobility, independent living and freedom of
expression.
UNCRPD 2006 # Suprerna

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UNCRPD 2006 # Suprerna

  • 1. UN CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES, 2006. Embracing Inclusive Approaches for Children and Youth with Special Education Needs: Delivering on the Promise of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
  • 2. WHAT IS THE UNCRPD? The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is an international agreement which came into force on 3 May 2008. It confirms that people with disabilities have the same human rights as everyone else and binds countries to protect those rights.
  • 3. WHY A CONVENTION NECESSARY? Approximately 10% of the world’s population have a disability. Although existing human rights treaties apply to everyone, including people with disabilities, there is evidence that disabled people around the world encounter a range of physical and social obstacles, preventing them from: receiving an education; obtaining a job; accessing information; obtaining proper health care; getting around; and  being accepted by society.
  • 4. CONVENTION TIMELINE  Adoption by the United Nations General Assembly - 13 December 2006  Opened for signature - 30 March 2007  Entry into force – 3 May 2008  First Conference of States Parties – 31 October & 3 November 2008  Second Conference of States Parties – 2 – 4 September 2009  First session of the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities – 23-27 February 2008
  • 5. RELATIONSHIP TO OTHER DISABILITY TEXTS The Convention builds upon, and works in synergy with previous international texts related to persons with disabilities: Standard Rules on the Equalization of Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities - 1994 (not a legally binding treaty) World Program of Action on Disabled Persons - 1982 (not a legally binding treaty)
  • 6. WHY A CONVENTION NECESSARY? A response to an overlooked development challenge: approximately 10% of the world’s population are persons with disabilities (over 650 million persons). Approximately 80% of whom live in developing countries A response to the fact that although pre-existing human rights conventions offer considerable potential to promote and protect the rights of persons with disabilities, this potential was not being tapped. Persons with disabilities continued being denied their human rights and were kept on the margins of society in all parts of the world. The Convention sets out the legal obligations on States to promote and protect the rights of persons with disabilities. It does not create new rights.
  • 7. A PARADIGM SHIFT The Convention marks a ‘paradigm shift’ in attitudes and approaches to persons with disabilities. Persons with disabilities are not viewed as "objects" of charity, medical treatment and social protection; rather as "subjects" with rights, who are capable of claiming those rights and making decisions for their lives based on their free and informed consent as well as being active members of society. The Convention gives universal recognition to the dignity of persons with disabilities.
  • 8. WHAT IS UNIQUE ABOUT THE CONVENTION? Both a development and a human rights instrument A policy instrument which is cross-disability and cross-sectoral Legally binding
  • 9. WHAT IS DISABILITY? The Convention does not explicitly define disability Preamble of Convention states: ‘Disability is an evolving concept, and that disability results from the interaction between persons with impairments and attitudinal and environmental barriers that hinders full and effective participation in society on an equal basis with others’ Article 1 of the Convention states: ‘Persons with disabilities include those who have long-term physical, mental, intellectual or sensory impairments which in interaction with various barriers may hinder their full and effective participation in society on an equal basis with others’.
  • 10. WHAT IS DISABILITY? Disability results from an interaction between a non- inclusive society and individuals: Person using a wheelchair might have difficulties gaining employment not because of the wheelchair, but because there are environmental barriers such as inaccessible buses or staircases which impede access Person with extreme near-sightedness who does not have access to corrective lenses may not be able to perform daily tasks. This same person with prescription eyeglasses would be able to perform all tasks without problems.
  • 11. PURPOSE OF CONVENTION (ARTICLE 1) To promote, protect and ensure the full and equal enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms by all persons with disabilities, and to promote respect for their inherent dignity. (The UNCRPD is the only international legal instrument for person with disabilities)
  • 12. CONVENTION STRUCTURE Preamble 1. Purpose 2. Definitions 3. General principles 4. General obligations 5. Equality and non-discrimination 6. Women with disabilities 7. Children with disabilities 8. Awareness-raising 9. Accessibility 10. Right to life 11. Situations of risk and humanitarian emergencies
  • 13. CONVENTION STRUCTURE 12. Equal recognition before the law 13. Access to justice 14. Liberty and security of the person 15. Freedom from torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment 16. Freedom from exploitation, violence and abuse 17. Protecting the integrity of the person 18. Liberty of movement and nationality 19. Living independently and being included in the community
  • 14. CONVENTION STRUCTURE 20. Personal mobility 21. Freedom of expression and opinion, and access to information 22. Respect for privacy 23. Respect for home and the family 24. Education 25. Health 26. Habilitation and rehabilitation 27. Work and employment 28. Adequate standard of living and social protection 29. Participation in political and public life
  • 15. CONVENTION STRUCTURE 30. Participation in cultural life, recreation, leisure and sport 31. Statistics and data collection 32. International cooperation 33. National implementation and monitoring 34 to 40. International monitoring mechanism 41 to 50. Final clauses Optional protocol
  • 16. RIGHTS IN UN CRPD The UNCRPD identifies 6 civil and political rights, and 12 economic, social and cultural rights to be enjoyed by all persons with disabilities without discrimination of gender, socio- economic or rural- urban status.
  • 17. RIGHTS IN THE CONVENTION Equality before the law without discrimination (article 5) Right to life, liberty and security of the person with disabilities (articles 10 & 14) Equal recognition before the law and legal capacity (article 12) Freedom from torture (article 15) Freedom from exploitation, violence and abuse (article 16) Right to respect physical and mental integrity (article 17)
  • 18. RIGHTS IN THE CONVENTION Freedom of movement and nationality (article 18) Right to live in the community (article 19) Freedom of expression and opinion (article 21) Respect for privacy (article 22) Respect for home and the family (article 23) Right to education (article 24) Right to health (article 25) Right to work (article 27)
  • 19. RIGHTS IN THE CONVENTION Right to adequate standard of living (article 28) Right to participate in political and public life (article 29) Right to participation in cultural life (article 30) The rest of the 50 Articles are concerned with implementation, reports and monitoring.
  • 20. GUIDING PRINCIPLES Full and effective participation and inclusion Respect for dignity, autonomy Equality of opportunity Equality between men and women Non- discrimination Accessibility Respect for difference, human diversity Evolving capacities of children
  • 21. GENERAL PRINCIPLES (ARTICLE 3) Respect for inherent dignity, individual autonomy including the freedom to make one’s own choices, and independence of persons Non-discrimination Full and effective participation and inclusion in society Respect for difference and acceptance of persons with disabilities as part of human diversity and humanity Equality of opportunity Accessibility Equality between men and women Respect for the evolving capacities of children with
  • 22. GENERAL PRINCIPLES: PARTICIPATION AND INCLUSION Participation is important to correctly identify specific needs, and to empower the individual Full and effective participation and inclusion in society is recognized in the Convention as: A general principle (article 3) A general obligation (article 4) A right (articles 29 and 30)
  • 23. GENERAL PRINCIPLES: NON-DISCRIMINATION Fundamental principle of international human rights law Includes direct and indirect discrimination reasonable accommodation must be made for persons with disabilities reasonable accommodation: ‘necessary and appropriate modification and adjustments not imposing a disproportionate or undue burden, where needed in a particular case, to ensure to persons with disabilities the enjoyment or exercise on an equal basis with others of all human rights and fundamental freedoms’
  • 24. GENERAL PRINCIPLES: ACCESSIBILITY Important as a means to empowerment and inclusion Both a general principle and a stand-alone article (article 9) Access must be ensured to: Justice (article 13) Living independently and being included in the community (article 19) Information and communication services (article 21) Education (article 24) Health (article 25) Habilitation and rehabilitation (article 26) Work and employment (article 27) - human resource policies and practices Adequate standard of living and social protection (article 28) Participation in political and social life (article 29) Participation in cultural life, recreation, leisure and sport (article 30)
  • 25. ARTICLE-24, & INCLUSIVE EDUCATION Article 24 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) protects the right to education of persons with disabilities. It proclaims the right to inclusive education and prescribes the steps that have to be taken to this end. Article 24 of the CRPD provides not only that children with disabilities should not be discriminated against but also that they should be able to participate in the general education system.
  • 26. ARTICLE-24, & INCLUSIVE EDUCATION 1.States Parties recognize the right of persons with disabilities to education. With a view to realizing this right without discrimination and on the basis of equal opportunity, States Parties shall ensure an inclusive education system at all levels and lifelong learning directed to: (a)The full development of human potential and sense of dignity and self-worth, and the strengthening of respect for human rights, fundamental freedoms and human diversity;
  • 27. CONTI… (b)The development by persons with disabilities of their personality, talents and creativity, as well as their mental and physical abilities, to their fullest potential; (c) Enabling persons with disabilities to participate effectively in a free society. 2.In realizing this right, States Parties shall ensure that:
  • 28. CONTI.. (a) Persons with disabilities are not excluded from the general education system on the basis of disability, and that children with disabilities are not excluded from free and compulsory primary education, or from secondary education, on the basis of disability; (b) Persons with disabilities can access an inclusive, quality and free primary education and secondary education on an equal basis with others in the communities in which they live;
  • 29. CONTI.. (c) Reasonable accommodation of the individual's requirements is provided; (d) Persons with disabilities receive the support required, within the general education system, to facilitate their effective education; (e) Effective individualized support measures are provided in environments that maximize academic and social development, consistent with the goal of full inclusion.
  • 30. CONTI.. 3 States Parties shall enable persons with disabilities to learn life and social development skills to facilitate their full and equal participation in education and as members of the community. To this end, States Parties shall take appropriate measures, including: (a) Facilitating the learning of Braille, alternative script, augmentative and alternative modes, means and formats of communication and orientation and mobility skills, and facilitating peer support and mentoring; (b) Facilitating the learning of sign language and the promotion of the linguistic identity of the deaf community;
  • 31. CONTI.. (b) Facilitating the learning of sign language and the promotion of the linguistic identity of the deaf community; (c) Ensuring that the education of persons, and in particular children, who are blind, deaf or deaf-blind, is delivered in the most appropriate languages and modes and means of communication for the individual, and in environments which maximize academic and social development.
  • 32. CONTI.. 4.In order to help ensure the realization of this right, States Parties shall take appropriate measures to employ teachers, including teachers with disabilities, who are qualified in sign language and/or Braille, and to train professionals and staff who work at all levels of education. Such training shall incorporate disability awareness and the use of appropriate augmentative and alternative modes, means and formats of communication, educational techniques and materials to support persons with disabilities.
  • 33. CONTI.. 5. States Parties shall ensure that persons with disabilities are able to access general tertiary education, vocational training, adult education and lifelong learning without discrimination and on an equal basis with others. To this end, States Parties shall ensure that reasonable accommodation is provided to persons with disabilities.
  • 34. CONCLUSION: In the past, disabled people have been perceived as individuals who require protection and evoke sympathy rather than respect. This Convention is a major step towards changing the perception of disability and ensures that societies recognize that all people must be provided with the opportunities to live life to their fullest potential. The Convention protects the rights of all people with disabilities in all areas of life including access to justice, personal mobility, independent living and freedom of expression.