RT Article
T1 A clash of conventions?: participation, power and the rights of disabled children
A1 Sand, Ralph
LA English
YR 2017
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/158852664X
AB This article considers the neglected topic of the relationship between the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, with regard to the participation rights of disabled children. It analyses key articles in both conventions and considers relevant general comments from both convention committees (the Committee on the Rights of the Child and the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities), and their interpretation by academic contributors. The article argues that much work on this topic fails to develop an adequate understanding of power relations, and that the "social model of disability" which underpins the disabilities convention, when applied to "childhood" (as opposed to "children") suggests that the implications of that convention for the participation rights of all children, not only disabled children, are profound. This is because the disabilities convention rejects the relevance of tests of capacity and "be
CN 301 360
K1 Kind
K1 Kindheit
K1 Behinderung
K1 Beteiligung
K1 Recht
K1 Europäisches Sozialmodell
K1 Mitwirkung
K1 Konvention
K1 Kinderrechte
DO 10.17645/si.v5i3.955