The Legal Protection of Refugees with Disabilities: Forgotten and Invisible?
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| Anteprima |
This
ground-breaking book focuses on the ‘forgotten refugees’, detailing
people with disabilities who have crossed borders in search of
protection from disaster or human conflict. The authors explore the
intersection between one of the oldest international human rights
treaties, the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, with
one of the newest: the Convention on the Rights of Persons with
Disabilities (CRPD). Drawing on fieldwork in six countries hosting
refugees in a variety of contexts – Malaysia, Indonesia, Pakistan,
Uganda, Jordan and Turkey – the book examines how the CRPD is (or
should) be changing the way that governments and aid agencies engage
with and accommodate persons with disabilities in situations of
displacement. The timeliness of the book is underscored by the adoption
in mid-2016 of the UN Charter on Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities
in Humanitarian Action adopted at the World Humanitarian Summit.
