TY - BOOK
T1 - The legal protection of refugees with disabilities
T2 - forgotten and invisible?
AU - Crock, Mary
AU - Smith-Khan, Laura
AU - McCallum, Ron
AU - Saul, Ben
PY - 2017/8/25
Y1 - 2017/8/25
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85067938468&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.4337/9781786435446
DO - 10.4337/9781786435446
M3 - Book
SN - 9781786435439
T3 - Elgar Studies in Human Rights
BT - The legal protection of refugees with disabilities
PB - Edward Elgar Publishing
CY - Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA, USA
ER -