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