Disability Law and Human Rights: Theory and Policy

Contents
Notes on Contributors
1 Introduction
Introduction
The Development of the CRPD
The Implementation of the CRPD
Structure and Content of This Book
View from the Committee: In Conversation with Rosemary Kayess
References
2 Toward Inclusive Equality: Ten Years of the Human Rights Model of Disability in the Work of the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Introduction
The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities as Hallmark
The Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Disability and Human Rights
General Comments
The Disability Model of the CRPD
The Human Rights Model
CRPD as an Equality Treaty
General Comment No. 6 on Equality and Non-Discrimination
Inclusive Equality as a New Equality Concept
Inclusive Equality and Models of Disability
Conclusion
References
3 What Does the CRPD Tell Us About Being Human?
Introduction
Severe Cognitive and Multiple Disabilities and the Challenge They Present for Human Rights
The Charge of Speciesism and the Question of Application of Human Rights to All Human Beings
“We” Capability as a Genuine Human Capability
The Consequences for People with Severe Cognitive and Multiple Disabilities
References
4 Rights, Justice and Flourishing: The Uses and Limitations of Human Rights
Introduction
The Struggle for Personhood and the Promise of Human Rights
Distributive Justice: State Power and Constraints on the Realization of Rights
Western Individualist Claims vs Social Autonomy and Freedom
Heterogeneity and Intersectionality
Reparatory Justice and Structural Transformation: Can Rights Address the Historical Continuity of Past Injustices?
The Critical Limitations of Rights Frameworks
Beyond Rights: Seeking a Flourishing Life
Conclusion
References
5 Disability and the Dilemma of Difference
Introduction
The Dilemmas
Universal or Disability-Specific Human Rights Provisions
Disability as Normalcy or Difference
Sameness and Difference as Reflected in the CRPD
The Substantive Equality Model of the CRPD
Equality of Human Rights
Conclusion and Policy Implications
References
6 Forms of Equality, Faces of Discrimination: CRPD Article 5, Article 12, and the Disability’s Difference Debate
Differences: Good or “Bad”?
Human Rights, Civil Rights, or Welfare?
Conceptualizing Article 5 and Article 12: Rights as Human or Civil?
Articles 5 and 12: The Text
Interpretive Materials: Article 5
Interpretive Materials: Article 12
Practical Application: Article 25, on Health, Through a Civil Rights Lens
Conclusion
References
7 The Right to Autonomy and the Conditions that Secure It: The Relationship Between the UNCRPD and Market-Based Policy Reform
Introduction
The Conception of Autonomy in Classical Philosophy and Law
The Conception of Autonomy Described Within the CRPD
Autonomy and Global Shifts in Disability Support Services Delivery
Australia’s National Disability Insurance Scheme
Conclusion: Enabling Autonomy
References
8 At the Intersection of Childhood and Disability: Improving Human Rights Protection for Disabled Children
Introduction
Disabled Children
Human Rights Protection
The CRC and CRPD
Education
Conclusion
References
9 The CRPD and Mental Health Law: The Conflict About Abolition, the Practical Dilemmas of Implementation and the Untapped Potential
A Brief Overview of the Conflict Between Abolitionists and States Parties over the Future of Mental Health Law
What Are Some of the Dilemmas Which Arise from the Call for the Abolition of Mental Health Law?
Does the CRPD Require the Abolition of Mental Health Law?
Is the Abolition of Mental Health Law ‘Good’ for Persons with Mental Impairment?
What Is the Untapped Potential of the CRPD in the Mental Health Context?
Conclusion
References
10 Disability and Forced Migration: Critical Connections and the Global South Debate
Introduction
Why Should Disabled Refugees and Migrants Matter?
The Numbers Are Far from Small
Exposed: Those Left Behind in Crises
Impacts on Caregivers
Multiple, Complex and Connected Barriers Meet Unprepared Systems
Constructions of Disability in the Forced Migration Narrative
Disability Fades: The Ableist View of the Migration Narrative
Vulnerability and Vanishing Agency
‘Intervening’ in Disability: The Weakness of Rights
Conclusion
References
11 Intersections in Human Rights and Public Policy for Indigenous People with Disability
The Colonial Origins of the Social Inequality of Australia’s Indigenous People with Disability
Intersectional Inequality, Discrimination and Isolation Experienced by Indigenous People with Disability
The Efficacy of Indigenous and Disability Rights Frameworks in Securing the Composite Rights of Indigenous People with Disability
Translation of Rights in Domestic Indigenous and Disability Policy
An Indigenous Interpretation of ‘Cultural Rights’ as a Basis for Intersecting Indigenous Rights with Disability Rights
References
12 Examining Australia’s Performance in Realising CRPD Obligations in Health Through the Lens of COVID-19
Introduction
The Australian Disability Context
Health and the CRPD
How Well Has Australia Implemented the CRPD in Relation to Health?
Discrimination
Accessibility
Children and Young People with Disability
Summarising Key Lessons
COVID-19 and the Australian Experience
Challenges for People with Disability
Positives to Emerge Out of the Pandemic
Conclusion
References
Index