Abstract
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) aims to guarantee the rights and conditions essential to the full participation of people with disabilities. Israel signed the convention in 2007 and ratified it in 2012. In this study we examined the barriers to full participation from the experience of people with disabilities in Israel. Sixty-one semi-structured interviews and nine focus groups were conducted during 9/2018–12/2019. We analysed the data using direct content analyses. A total of ten CRPD articles were relevant to the barriers found in the study. Stigmas, bureaucracy, and inaccessibility are issues that affect, sometimes dramatically, decisions and behaviors of people with disabilities in Israel in daily life as well as in the significant stages of life. The findings show the importance of integrating the experiences of people with disabilities into research and policy while reaching out to them with information on their rights.
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