Essays about: "CRPD"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 14 essays containing the word CRPD.

1. 1. Navigating the Global-to-National Interface: Exploring the Impact of International Development Agendas on National Policy Shaping: A Study of CRPD implementation in Armenia

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and Management

   Author : Marine Manukyan; [2023]
   Keywords : CRPD; Disability; PWD; SDG; Policy-shaping; Human rights; Development; Global Governance; Policy Transfer; Armenia; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Armenia started the disability policy reforms since the ratification of the UN CRPD in 2010. The final laws however were adopted only in 2021 and are not fully in force till now. The objective of this study is to comprehensively investigate the influence of international development agendas on national policy-shaping. READ MORE

3. 2. Reasonable accommodation - at what cost?

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakulteten

   Author : Axel Edling; [2023]
   Keywords : Public international law; International labour law; International disability law; Reasonable accommodation; Right to work; Persons with disabilities; UNCRPD; Article 27; Jungelin; Sahlin; V.F.C.; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is not only the main instrument of international disability law, but also connects the field with a multitude of other areas of international human rights law. In its 27th Article it guarantees the right to work for persons with disabilities, thereby bridging the gap between international disability- and international labour law. READ MORE

4. 3. NGOs impact on women with physical disabilities: an independent life in Colombo, Sri Lanka?

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för socialt arbete

   Author : Maja Naumann Umegård; Annastasia Wrembicki; [2022]
   Keywords : Women with physical disabilities; independence; non gonvernmetal organisation; NGO; Social model of disability; medical model of disability; social barriers; Sri Lanka; Colombo; CRPD;

   Abstract : This study aimed to explore how non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in Sri Lanka define and interpret an independent life for women with physical disabilities (WWPD) in their services. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with five employees at five Sri Lankan NGOs. READ MORE

5. 4. Refusing Medical Treatment due to Mental Capacity - A Study of the Concept of a Valid Consent and What the Healthcare Personnel's Obligations are When the Patient has not Given an Informed Consent

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakulteten

   Author : Thérèse Bennshagen; [2021]
   Keywords : Healthcare; Mental Capacity; Legal Capacity; Administrative Law; Social and Welfare Law; Public International Law; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : This essay has two purposes: to examine how much the patient has to understand to be able to consent to medical treatment and what the healthcare personnel's obligations are when the consent is not informed. Regarding the first purpose I concluded that there is no explicit requirement of a certain mental capacity to consent but that if one considered an uninformed consent to constitute a forced bodily intervention, which is prohibited in Chapter 2 Section 6 Instrument of the Government, then medical treatment can be refused. READ MORE

6. 5. Mechanical restraint in psychiatric healthcare facilities : A helpful tool, or torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment in disguise?

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Juridiska institutionen

   Author : Julia Rudhe; [2021]
   Keywords : Mechanical restraint; torture; international human rights; UNCAT; CRPD; survivor-controlled research; bältesläggning;

   Abstract : The use of mechanical restraint is a common practice in psychiatric care, often defended by medical necessity but seldom questioned from a human rights perspective. The purpose of this thesis has been to investigate under which circumstances mechanical restraint by bed through belt fixation could amount to torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. READ MORE