From Rhetoric to Action: Implementing the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (Cambridge Disability Law and Policy Series) - Softcover

Flynn, Eilionóir

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1107672112 ISBN 13: 9781107672116

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2013

Synopsis

This book contains a global comparative study of implementation and monitoring mechanisms for national disability strategies. It comprises a comparative study that was conducted at international, regional, and comparative country levels and that highlights critical success factors in implementing disability strategies or action plans worldwide. It explores emerging synergies between what is required to implement principles of international law contained in the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and what it is possible to achieve through national policy and systems development. A number of critical success factors for implementing and monitoring strategies are identified, including leadership from government and civil society, participation of disabled people in implementation and monitoring, transparency and accountability in reporting on progress, independent monitoring and external review, and the ability to measure progress with indicators of disability equality.

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About the Author

Dr Eilionóir Flynn is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Disability Law and Policy, National University of Ireland Galway. Her research interests in the field of disability law include assisted and supported decision making, rights-enforcement mechanisms, and access to justice. At NUI Galway, she has taught across a range of disciplines at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, including courses on comparative disability law; social and public policy; judicial activism; and advocacy, activism, and the public interest.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1107672112
• ISBN 13: 9781107672116
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 490