International legal regulation of the rights of persons with disabilities: problems of formation and development

Serhii Viktorovich Maidanik

doi:10.21564/2414-990x.154.234227

Abstract

At the level of international legal regulation disability policy is currently one of the priority areas. However, such attention to the international legal protection of the rights of persons with disabilities has not always been the case, as the problems of persons with disabilities have long remained unnoticed by the international community. Rare attempts to improve the situation with persons with disabilities were usually limited to medical protection and integration into the labor market, while the task of their full and actual involvement in public life was not even set. The article analyzes the preconditions, reasons and features of the evolution of the system of international legal protection of the rights of persons with disabilities, as well as examines the transformation of approaches to defining the concept of "disability" at the level of international law. The article defines the main stages of the formation of international cooperation in the field of protection of the rights of persons with disabilities. The article presents the results of the analysis of international legal documents on disability policy for the period from the beginning of the twentieth century to 2020.

Highlights

The protection of the rights of persons with disabilities is central to the social policy of any democratic, social state governed by the rule of law
This is not surprising, given that about 15% people in the world live with some form of disability and their number continues to grow despite the efforts of both national governments and the international community [28, p. 8]
The prevailing opinion was that persons with disabilities were inferior and that it was necessary to “correct” them by applying rehabilitation programs and placing persons with disabilities in rehabilitation centers, that is, the medical model of understanding disability was applied

Summary

Introduction

The protection of the rights of persons with disabilities is central to the social policy of any democratic, social state governed by the rule of law. This is not surprising, given that about 15% people in the world live with some form of disability and their number continues to grow despite the efforts of both national governments and the international community [28, p. Most of these developments are devoted to the protection of individual rights, analysis of the content of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the peculiarities of the legal regulation of the legal status of persons with disabilities in individual countries

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