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Protection of the rights of persons with disabilities
Protection of the rights of persons with disabilities

Author(s): Anna Nowak
Subject(s): Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Health and medicine and law, Inclusive Education / Inclusion
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: people with disability; rights; protection; discrimination; equality of rights

Summary/Abstract: This article describes the issues of the rights of persons with disabilities. It raises a subject of most important documents that regulate this issue. It provides the analysis of law in the international legislation acts, such as Declaration on the Rights of Disabled Persons, the Standard Rules on the Equalization of Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities also the Convention on the Rights of the Child and others etc. It refers not only to fundamental rights of persons, but also to protection of health, medical services, rehabilitation, employment and education.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 21
  • Page Range: 15-28
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: English