Essays about: "disabled peoples’ organizations"

Found 1 essay containing the words disabled peoples’ organizations.

  1. 1. Power and Disability in the Global South: A Case Study of Ghana's Disability Rights Movement

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Development Studies; Lunds universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Andrew Downing; [2011]
    Keywords : Ghana; disability rights; social movements; international development; political process theory; counterhegemony; disabled peoples’ organizations; Ghana Federation of the Disabled; free spaces; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : In recent years, disability rights has emerged as an increasingly important political issue in Ghana, primarily due to the mobilization of an organized and formidable national disability rights movement. In 2006 Ghana’s Persons with Disability (PWD) Act was signed into law, marking the promulgation of the most comprehensive piece of disability rights legislation in the country’s history. READ MORE