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Disability rights and inclusiveness in Africa : the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, challenges and change

Title: Disability rights and inclusiveness in Africa : the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, challenges and change / edited by Jeff D. Grischow, Magnus Mfoafo-M'Carthy.
Publication: Woodbridge, Suffolk : James Currey, 2022.

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Description

xvii, 277 pages; 22 cm.

Summary

"Many have praised the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), first adopted by the UN in 2006, as a revolutionary step towards disability rights in Africa. But how real is the progress towards equality for persons with physical disabilities, mental health difficulties, blindness, deafness or albinism? What are the barriers to the CRPD's successful implementation on the continent, and how might we enforce inclusiveness and equality among those disadvantaged? This book brings together the findings of researchers in Ghana, Cameroon, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, Zimbabwe and South Africa to offer grassroots' perspectives on the challenges and possibilities of achieving disability rights under the CRPD. Challenging the generally optimistic view presented to date, the contributors provide evidence-based trenchant critiques of the Convention, highlight the ways in which disability rights are interpreted in varying contexts and with different disabilities, and examine particular issues in relation to children and women. Finally, the contributors suggest ways of moving forward and achieving disability rights in Africa."--Publisher description.

Series Statement

African issues

Uniform Title

African issues.

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Framing disability rights within African human rights movements / Bonny Ibhawoh -- Legislation as a care institution? : the CRPD and rights of adults with intellectual disabilities in South Africa / Charlotte Capri -- Examining the implementation of inclusive education in Zimbabwe / Tsitsi Chataika & Lincoln Hlatywayo -- Barriers to the implementation of Education Article 24 of the CPRD in Kenya / Billian Otundo -- A disabled disability movement : the paradox of participation in Uganda / Herbert Muyinda & Susan Reynolds Whyte -- Implementation of the CPRD in Ethiopia : grassroots perspectives from the University of Gondar community-based rehabilitation programme / Mikyas Abera -- Knowledge and utilization of the CRPD and Persons with Disabilities Act 715 of Ghana among deaf people / Wisdom Kwadwo Mprah & Juventus Duorinaah -- CRPD Article 6 : vulnerabilities of women with disabilities : recommendations for the disability movement and other stakeholders in Ghana / Augustina Naami & Joana Okine -- Assessing the benefits of the CRPD in Cameroon : the experience of persons with disabilities in the Buea Municipality / Wisdom Kwadwo Mprah, Maxwell Peprah Opoku & Bernard Nsaidzedze Sakah -- African ontology, albinism and human rights / Elvis Imafidon.

Call Number

ReCAP 22-17092

ISBN

9781847012913
1847012914

OCLC

1328024364

Title

Disability rights and inclusiveness in Africa : the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, challenges and change / edited by Jeff D. Grischow, Magnus Mfoafo-M'Carthy.

Publisher

Woodbridge, Suffolk : James Currey, 2022.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

African issues

African issues.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

2007

Added Author

Grischow, Jeff D. (Jeff Douglas), 1965- editor.

Mfoafo-M'Carthy, Magnus, editor.

Research Call Number

ReCAP 22-17092

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