Shifting the Balance of Power: The Strategic Use of the CRPD by Disabled People’s Organizations in Securing ‘a Seat at the Table’

Löve, Laufey; Traustadóttir, Rannveig; Rice, James

doi:10.3390/laws8020011

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“…There are signs that disabled people are influencing how disability legislation and policy develops in Iceland in line with article 4.3 of the CRPD (Löve, Traustadóttir & Rice 2019). However, these policy developments do not seem to reach support services for parents with ID.…”

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Appropriate Measures? Supporting Parents with ID in the Context of the CRPD

Stefánsdóttir

Rice

Aunos

et al. 2022

Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research

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The international literature continues to show that parents with intellectual disabilities (ID) do not receive proper support and face disproportionate rates of custody deprivation. Despite the efforts of activists, critical scholars and some progressive support workers, it seems that the situation of parents with ID have not improved much. Iceland ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) in 2016. This contribution is one part of a larger project that aims to explore the impact of the ratification of the CRPD on service responses to parents with ascribed ID. Thirteen indepth interviews were conducted with staff supporting these parents. The findings indicated attitudinal and organizational barriers to realizing the goals of the CRPD in this area. However, the findings also indicated a number of pathways forward upon which to build and which may help to produce better outcomes for parents with ID.

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confidence: 73%

Appropriate Measures? Supporting Parents with ID in the Context of the CRPD

Stefánsdóttir

Rice

Aunos

et al. 2022

Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research

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“…Overall, this fragmentation challenges the discourse of joint and concerted action (see, for example, Löve et al, 2019). Some participants noted how less powerful voices are frequently not heard or ignored, especially those in poor rural areas and indigenous people:…”

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confidence: 99%

Intersecting Disability and Poverty in the Global South: Barriers to the Localization of the UNCRPD

Grech,

Weber,

Rule

2023

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The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) remains in place as the major disability rights instrument recognising that all persons with disabilities must enjoy human rights and freedoms as every other person. However, the CRPD does not automatically confer realization of these rights. In practice, its implementation is met by multiple hurdles, most pronounced at the local level in the Global South, where disability and poverty intersect. This article reports on findings from a study in five countries (Kenya, Philippines, Jamaica, Guatemala, and South Africa) looking at the extent to which the CRPD is being implemented locally in contexts of poverty, and the factors and processes impacting this localization. The findings highlight multiple barriers, becoming more pronounced in local rural areas. These include weak and fragmented organisations of persons with disabilities (OPDs), political and legal issues, and a siloed approach where disability is marginalised in mainstream areas, including development. These barriers are accentuated as intersectional dimensions are factored in, including indigeneity, age, gender, race, and ethnicity. Overall, each local context is left to its own devices, with urban stakeholders, unknowing of what life in poverty is like and how this reframes the CRPD in discourse and practice at the forefront. Our study concludes that there is a profound need for an informed, contextualized, intersectional, and geopolitical analysis where poverty is kept sharply in focus. This is essential to move beyond unrealistic assumptions about disability rights frameworks and to work towards truly localized and transformative efforts.

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“…102 Love and others note that the CRPD calls for a 'fundamental realignment of the accepted and ingrained norms and procedures that have dictated how disability policy is made and who gets to participate in that process'. 103 A CRPD focal point performs a central role in changing underlying values within the broader bureaucracy in line with the CRPD, and in encouraging bureaucrats to appreciate the value of ensuring the effective inclusion of persons with disabilities in developing public policy. 104 In contrast, an NMRF and its staff are guided by the implementation of recommendations from the international system and their practical application.…”

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Government human rights focal points: Lessons learned from focal points under the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

Caughey

2021

Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights

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The exploration for tools and approaches that will make the UN human rights treaty system more impactful has been ongoing for over thirty years. The UN Convention on the Rights of persons with Disabilities continues to represent the most innovative approach to effecting human rights implementation at the domestic level, through placing obligations on States to designate a Disability Focal Point within government and an Independent Monitoring Mechanism outside of government. This article examines the role of Disability Focal Points and considers in particular how the current drive for the establishment of National Mechanisms for Follow-Up and Reporting may have unintended consequences for their development. The article utilises the UK as a case-study to assess the potential benefits of allocating responsibility for international reporting and follow-up to a Disability Focal Point. The article finds that the role performed by Disability Focal Points at the domestic level makes them best placed to coordinate reporting and follow-up relating to the CRPD. Furthermore, the fact that Disability Focal Points are fully integrated into domestic national policy mechanisms means that they ought to be well positioned to harness the transformative potential of the treaty body examination process.

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Shifting the Balance of Power: The Strategic Use of the CRPD by Disabled People’s Organizations in Securing ‘a Seat at the Table’

Cited by 8 publications

References 25 publications

Appropriate Measures? Supporting Parents with ID in the Context of the CRPD

Appropriate Measures? Supporting Parents with ID in the Context of the CRPD

Intersecting Disability and Poverty in the Global South: Barriers to the Localization of the UNCRPD

Government human rights focal points: Lessons learned from focal points under the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

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