Abstract

PARRA-DUSSAN, Carlos. CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES: BACKGROUND AND ITS NEW APPROACHES. Int. Law: Rev. Colomb. Derecho Int. [online]. 2010, n.16, pp.347-380. ISSN 1692-8156.

This article is the result of the research project Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities a new paradigm for protection, which makes a discussion of this Convention from four perspectives, we consider the most relevant as a starting point of this international instrument in the field of United Nations. The first is the study of the legal background of the Convention, the second is the comparison of the Convention with other instruments of Soft Law on disability, the third section is on a major route for comparison between the Convention and other treaties of universal human rights system, the latter perspective and perhaps most important, the new emphasis on the Convention, addressed obliquely or less considered by other international instruments.

Keywords : Disability; Anti-Discrimination; protection models; Disability; Anti-Discrimination; protection models.

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