Disability and human rights

A Right to be Included: The Best and Worst of Times for Learners with Disabilities

“…To take stock of the arguments we have advanced in this paper, time is imbued with politics (Sharma 2014;Virilio 2008), though it is frequently and speciously mobilised as linear and as a marker of progress (Adam 1995;Chia 2002;Introna 2019). People with disabilities do not easily fit with an unswerving, continuous sense of time progression (Baril 2016;Ljuslinder, Ellis & Vikström 2020;McRuer 2018;Samuels 2017), although in chorus with this disparity, rights-based discourses-the universal right to be included-have developed international appeal (Lawson & Beckett 2020;Series 2020) despite their questionable relevance in Global South contexts (Grech 2012;Meekosha 2011). Commendable though it may be that today, people with disabilities are included as equals in global human rights instruments, violations are not uncommon (Zembylas 2021) and systemic exclusion of people with disabilities from education is persistently reported across the globe (Calderón-Almendros 2018; Hughes, Corcoran & Slee 2016;Isaacs 2020;Slee 2018;Söderström 2016;Titchkosky 2020).…”

“…It underpins transnational developments such as the CRPD (United Nations 2016) alongside social advances in individual countries and local contexts, though its relevance to the Global South is questionable principally because of the ways that material oppression differs in these contexts (Grech 2012;Meekosha 2011). Nonetheless, its ongoing citation gives rise to what is fast developing as the human rights model of disability (Series 2020).…”

“…Disability rights embed notions of equalisation into social discourse, identifying barriers to participation in the current day that may be addressed in a future to come. The CRPD, frequently cited as the driving artefact of such intentions, purports a necessity for people with disabilities to be afforded rights on the same basis as others, whilst ushering in a set of new supporting forward-focused rights as indicative of success (Harpur 2012;Series 2020). The CRPD includes provisions requiring states to engage in ' awareness raising' (Series 2020: 77), and uniquely, a framework by which they are to monitor and report on implementation and success every four years.…”

Willingness to pay, familiarity and political attitudes: The case of integrating people with intellectual disabilities

“…The disability studies literature addresses the challenges people with intellectual disabilities face by presenting several models of disability. The most relevant to our work are the social model and the human rights model (Barnes et al, 2010;Lawson & Beckett, 2021;Oliver, 1981;Retief & Letšosa, 2018;Series, 2020). The social model views disability as a socially produced injustice that can be eliminated through radical social change (Barnes et al, 2010;Oliver, 1981;Retief & Letšosa, 2018).…”

“…The human rights model incorporates civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights. In addition, it offers constructive proposals for improving the situation of people with intellectual disabilities (Degener, 2017;Series, 2020).…”