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From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of [log in to unmask] Sent: 17 June 2017 23:19 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [book] Rights of people with disabilities in Europe: a new strategy based on ability rather than disability 18 June 2017 [Image removed by sender.] PDF - Human rights: a reality for all - Council of Europe Disability Strategy 2017-2023 (2017-03-24) [Image removed by sender.] Reference 004217GBR Size 274 KB Nb of pages 38 Format PDF Other available languages French<https://book.coe.int/eur/fr/7278-pdf-droits-de-l-homme-une-realite-pour-tous-strategie-du-conseil-de-leurope-sur-le-handicap-2017-2023.html> [Image removed by sender.]<https://edoc.coe.int/en/7276-pdf-human-rights-a-reality-for-all-council-of-europe-disability-strategy-2017-2023.html> Promoting the rights of persons with disabilities: Equality, dignity and equal opportunities. The Council of Europe promotes, protects and monitors the implementation of human rights for all, including persons with disabilities. Persons with disabilities are entitled to have access to and enjoy, on an equal basis with others, the full range of human rights safeguarded by the European Convention on Human Rights, the European Social Charter, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and other international treaties. The Council of Europe Strategy on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities – Human Rights: A Reality for All – outlines the Organisation’s priorities in the period 2017-2023. The overall goal of the Strategy is to achieve equality, dignity and equal opportunities for persons with disabilities in specific areas where the Council of Europe can make an input. This requires ensuring independence, freedom of choice, full and active participation in all areas of life and society. PDF - Promoting equality and non-discrimination for persons with disabilities (2017-03-24) [Image removed by sender.] Author(s) Professor Lisa Waddington and Dr Andrea Broderick Reference 035917GBR Size 918 KB Nb of pages 61 Format PDF [Image removed by sender.]<https://edoc.coe.int/en/7279-pdf-promoting-equality-and-non-discrimination-for-persons-with-disabilities.html> Equality and non-discrimination: A core principle of all human rights and fundamental freedoms. Ensuring equal opportunities for persons with disabilities is an important facilitator of participation and inclusion in society. Both the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) and the Council of Europe Disability Strategy 2017-2023 address equality and equalisation of opportunities for persons with disabilities. Article 5 of the UNCPRD requires States to adopt positive measures aimed at ensuring equality across the substantive rights in the Convention. The Council of Europe Disability Strategy aims at guiding and supporting the activities of Council of Europe member States in their implementation of the UNCRPD and Council of Europe standards regarding disability, and similarly addresses equality and non-discrimination. The overall goal of this study is to analyse the obligations contained in the UNCRPD regarding equality and non-discrimination, and to provide examples of good national practices regarding equality and non-discrimination. PDF - A study on the Equal Recognition before the law - Contribution towards the Council of Europe Strategy on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2017-03-24) [Image removed by sender.] Reference 036017GBR Size 1.216 MB Nb of pages 84 Format PDF [Image removed by sender.]<https://edoc.coe.int/en/7277-pdf-a-study-on-the-equal-recognition-before-the-law-contribution-towards-the-council-of-europe-strategy-on-the-rights-of-persons-with-disabilities.html> Equal recognition before the law: the capacity to hold rights and duties and the capacity to act on them. This Study aims to identify ways and means of implementation of Article 121 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) which affirms the right to equal recognition before the law. It represents a paradigm shift from viewing persons with disabilities as objects of charity and medical treatment to identifying them as subjects with legal rights. The requirements of Article 12 of the CRPD have been clearly interpreted by the UN CRPD Committee. Various bodies of the Council of Europe have acknowledged this shift in consensus regarding the right to universal legal capacity and have gradually moved towards affirming its applicability, most notably in the Council of Europe Strategy on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2017-2023<https://edoc.coe.int/en/people-with-disabilities/7276-pdf-human-rights-a-reality-for-all-council-of-europe-disability-strategy-2017-2023.html>. To reiterate, the Strategy asserts that the rights covered in it are to be interpreted in light of the UN CRPD. 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