Of rights and obligations
The birth of accessibility
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12592776 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrea Broderick (0000-0002-6449-8077, Maastricht University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 393-413 |
| Publication date | 2019-08-13 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The International Journal of Human Rights (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1364-2987 • E-ISSN: 1744-053X |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13642987.2019.1634556 |
| OpenAlex | W2968300566 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
Accessibility refers to the inclusive practice of removing barriers to ensure equal access for persons with disabilities to, among others, built environments, goods and services, as well as facilities. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD or Convention) formulates ‘accessibility’ as a general principle and overarching obligation of the Convention, rather than as a human right per se. This has given rise to debate regarding the normative status of accessibility . Those involved in promoting the Convention have widely asserted that the primary aim of the CRPD was not to create new rights but to ensure that existing human rights were made equally effective for persons with disabilities. On the contrary, this article hypothesises that the enactment of accessibility obligations for States Parties, falling indirectly on the private sector, results in some form of sui generis ‘entitlement’ for persons with disabilities, which can arguably be viewed as amounting to a corresponding new human right – the right to accessibility. This begs foundational and complex questions about the formation and scope of human rights norms, and in particular whether the CRPD actually creates new rights. It also raises fundamental questions regarding the relationship between rights and obligations
Convention · Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities · Economics · Entitlement (fair division · Human rights · International human rights law · Law and economics · Normative · Obligation · Political science · Right to property · Scope (computer science · Sociology · Human Rights and Immigration · Law
Advancing an Embodied Understanding of Accessibility for Persons with Disabilities
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| Citations per year | 2.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |