That is possibly why during the campaign for the DDA in the UK people campaigned for Civil Rights for Disabled People
Chris Benson
Legal Officer
The Disability Rights Commission
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From: Shelley Lynn Tremain [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 23 January 2004 19:28
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: European research agendas
I think (not surprisingly) that you are both wrong.
The term "disability rights" uses the term "disability" in the way that
proponents of the social model identify as an aspect of the medical model:
namely, disability as a property of a person. The term "disability rights"
is intended to mean that even people who have a disability deserve rights
(economic, human, social, etc.) equal to those who don't have a disability.
Similarly, "women's rights" means that people who are women are deserving of
the same rights that people who are not women have.
This use of the term "disability" is inconsistent with the way that the
social model defines "disability".
Shelley Lynn Tremain
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From: "Mark Priestley" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 8:14 AM
Subject: Re: European research agendas
Keith wrote...
> When we campaign for "disability rights" we are for the human rights
of people who have been denied civil rights through no fault...
> Mark, maybe you might like to add some more comments.
..err... no, I think that about sums it up for the moment...
Best wishes
Mark
On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 07:42:31 -0800 , Shelley Lynn Tremain
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>What could "disability rights" possibly mean under the terms of your
social
>model? The right to be oppressed? The right to be discriminated
against?
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