A Comparative analysis of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disability and the African Draft Protocol on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

Appiagyei-Atua, Kwadwo

doi:10.4314/ldd.v21i1.8

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“…Various other developments followed, but it was the AU ministerial committee that conceived that vulnerable groups, which include the elderly and persons with disabilities, needed to be protected'. (Appiagyei-Atua 2017). This led to a draft protocol for the rights of people living with disabilities that is known as the Accra Draft (Kamga 2021).…”

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Africanisation of Disability Rights: An Analysis of The Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People’s Right of Persons with Disabilities

2023

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This article makes an analysis of the CRPD, illustrating how the Global South has departed from the Global North by introducing legislative provisions that speak to Africa and relate to the African people as peculiar people who have distinct histories and cultures. This paper discusses the extent, if any, to which the approach to disability has been Africanized as opposed to strict adherence to the provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (hereinafter the CRPD). The article concludes by finding that the ACHRPD has provisions that speak directly to the African context and that the UNCRPD is largely a framework that has provided a skeleton framework that was developed to suit the Global North context.

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Africanisation of Disability Rights: An Analysis of The Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People’s Right of Persons with Disabilities

2023

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“…Article 18(4) of the African Charter on Human and People's Rights (ACHPR) says: "The aged and the disabled shall also have the right to special measures of protection in keeping with their physical and moral needs". However, according to [3], this disability clause in the ACHPR legalistic corpus did not cater for the basis of discrimination against special persons. …Despite the provisions on disability, the African treaties adopt a rudimentary medical model approach to disability that singularly attributes disability to impairment without considering social and environmental factors.…”

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“…The question of why disability continues to be a stigma in Africa seems to inspire a quite unpleasant answer naturally, whereas such unpalatable responses ought not to be the case considering the global push to make living worthwhile even for being disabled [1,2]. Empirically, the African response implies that disability-inclusive development is still farfetched from the global expectation [3].…”

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Politics, Disability Governance and Inclusiveness of Parasport Athletes in a Coronavirus Pandemic Aftermath in Africa: Observations from Nigeria

Okudolo

Ojakorotu

2021

J. Intellect. Disabl. Diagn. Treat.

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The paper evaluates politics and governance underlining disability inclusion development using reflections in parasport. Its thesis-of-thesis derives from the presentation of surveyed explanations from Nigerian stakeholders in the Paralympics sector to generalize for Africa. Before the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak, politics in Africa shows an abysmal scorecard in terms of combating discrimination against disabled persons. Accordingly, the continent's disability inclusiveness governance shows it is effectual. Thus, there is perhaps ample indication to adduce that sports politics will continually fail to achieve the inclusiveness of parasports athletes in a coronavirus epidemic aftermath. Using the Nigerian context, the paper gathers evidence from interviews with stakeholders and evaluative-secondary data in parasports concerning not only to responding to disability inclusion in sports but also to the wider politics of sustaining inclusiveness of Paralympic athletes in a post-COVID-19 era. The paper argues that the character of politics in Africa generally has not resulted in optimal investments, considerations, and willpower from political leaders to advance outcomes in the aspect of inclusivity of athletes with disabilities. It considers contextual factors that militate against achieving all-inclusiveness of disabled sports persons and how politics can be channelled to achieve their optimum well-being in the sports arena.

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Women Human Rights Defenders: A Case of Activism of Mothers of Children with Albinism in Tanzania

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Reimer-Kirkham,

Astle

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A Comparative analysis of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disability and the African Draft Protocol on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

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Africanisation of Disability Rights: An Analysis of The Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People’s Right of Persons with Disabilities

Africanisation of Disability Rights: An Analysis of The Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People’s Right of Persons with Disabilities

Politics, Disability Governance and Inclusiveness of Parasport Athletes in a Coronavirus Pandemic Aftermath in Africa: Observations from Nigeria

Women Human Rights Defenders: A Case of Activism of Mothers of Children with Albinism in Tanzania

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