The Human Rights-Based Approach to Disability

Course

Self-paced e-learning

UN Partner

United Nations Institute for Training and Research

Length: 25 Days
Effort: 3-5 hours per week
Level: Introductory
Language: English
Venue: Online

Certificate: Yes
Price: Free
Start date: 23 January 2023
End date: 24 February 2023
Registration deadline: 20 January 2023

The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) which entered into force in 2008, is a legally binding instrument that has been widely ratified. It is grounded in a human rights-based approach, moving away from previous models on disability, such as the medical model.

Sustainable Development Goals: Quality education; Reducing inequalities; Peace, justice and strong institutions

Subject: Human Rights and Disabilities

Keywords: human rights; disabilities

About this course

The overall objective of this course is to allow a better understanding of the human rights-based approach to disability and to enable participants to identify gaps between existing policy and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, in order to implement it coherently.

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Target audience

Open to everyone.

Learning objectives

At the end of the course, participants will be able to:

Describe the human rights-based approach to disability in contrast with previous approaches to disability;
Explain the guiding principles of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities;
Describe the concept of discrimination on the basis of disability as enshrined in the CRPD;
Describe the concept of inclusive development as enshrined in the CRPD;
Describe some of the cross-cutting rights contained in the CRPD;
Identify policy built under previous approaches to disability that are not in line with the human rights-based approach to disability;
Identify gaps in legislation with regard to the CRPD.