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Call for Papers on the CRPD
By Andrea Shettle, MSW | July 14, 2008
Dr. Kishor Bhanushali circulated the following call for papers on the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) in late June:
Dear All:
This is Dr. Kishor Bhanushali from India, working as a faculty member with ICFAI Business School. I am working on edited book on UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. I am looking for authors to contribute articles related to various aspects of convention and its likely impact on persons with disabilities. For further information, pls contact me at kishorkisu@rediffmail.com,
kishor@ibsindia.org
Thanks for your overwhelming response to my book on U.N. Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Let me share with you some information about the proposed book and also
about ICFAI Books and ICFAI University Press.
Introduction:
United Nations estimated that there are about 650 million persons living with disabilities in the world. If we include the members of their families, there are approximately 2 billion persons who are directly affected by the disabilities, representing almost third of the world’s population. Persons with disabilities are generally overlooked in the development process as they do not enjoy rights at par with their non-disabled counterparts. Therefore ensuring equality of rights and access for these persons will have an enormous impact on the social and economic situation in countries around the world. In this scenario 2008 is a significant yeasr because of the entry of Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its Optional Protocol, which are legally binding documents obligating the state governments to promote and protect the rights of persons with disabilities. U.N. Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities ensures that all persons with all types of disabilities must enjoy all human rights and fundamental freedoms on an equal basis with others. It clarifies and qualifies how all categories of rights apply to persons with disabilities and identifies areas where adaptations have to be made for persons with disabilities to effectively exercise their rights, where their rights have been violated, and where protection of rights must be reinforced.
The Convention marks a “paradigm shift” in attitudes and approaches to persons with disabilities. It takes to a new height the movement from viewing persons with disabilities as “objects” of charity, medical treatment and social protection towards viewing persons with
disabilities as “subjects” with rights, who are capable of claiming those rights and making decisions for their lives based on their free, and informed consent as well as being active members of society (U.N.).
Theme:
The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its Optional Protocol was adopted on 13 December 2006 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, and was opened for signature on 30 March 2007. It was the first comprehensive human rights treaty of the 21st century and is the first human rights convention to be open for signature by regional integration organizations. Countries that join in the Convention engage themselves to develop and carry out policies, laws and administrative measures for securing the rights recognized in the Convention and abolish laws, regulations, customs and practices that constitute discrimination. Countries are to guarantee that persons with disabilities enjoy their inherent right to life on an equal basis with others, ensure the equal rights and advancement of women and girls with disabilities and protect children with disabilities.
Objective(s):
1. To understand the need of convention to protect the rights of persons with disabilities
2. Understand various aspects of convention on rights of persons with disabilities
3. Understand various aspects of convention and its expected impact on the life of persons with disabilities in various countries of the world
4. To discuss the issues involved in implementation of convention in various countries of the world
About Icfai University Press
In order to survive and thrive in a rapidly transforming economic and business environment, executives and professionals need to continuously acquire emerging knowledge and skills. The Icfai University Press therefore brings out a portfolio of publications to make the much-needed knowledge available to its readers who include students, research scholars and working executives. Presently, the Icfai University Press brings out 18 magazines and 57 journals.
About Icfai Books
Icfai Books is the initiative of the Icfai University Press to publish a series of professional reference books in the areas of accounting, banking, insurance, finance, marketing, operations, HRM, IT, general management and allied areas with a special focus on emerging and frontier themes. These books seek to provide, at one place, a retrospective, current as well as prospective view of the contemporary developments in the environment, with emphasis on general and specialized branches of knowledge and applications.
These professional books are based on relevant, authoritative and thought-provoking articles written by experts and published in leading professional magazines and research journals. The articles are organized in a sequential and logical way that makes reading continuous and helps the reader acquire a holistic view of the subject. This helps in strengthening the understanding of the subject better and also enables the reader stretch their thoughts beyond the contents of the book. These books are designed to meet the requirements of working executives, research scholars, academicians, students of professional programs and Indian and foreign universities. Around 40 books are sent to print every month.
The books are meant for the purpose of dissemination of knowledge and information and are sold at highly discounted prices. The publishing unit is, therefore, heavily subsidized by the parent organization involved in higher education. If you need any more information about Icfai Journals and Magazines, please visit www.iupindia.org. At this juncture, we are pleased to inform you that we now have launched our own website www.books.iupindia.org and we wish to allow readers the facility of e-downloading the books from our website and also from some other websites we may work in future. We are sure, you will agree that this will result in larger distribution of books and also give better visibility to the source(s)/author(s) and the books. Therefore, we now seek your permission to reprint the above article in the electronic version. Kindly let us know that we have you permission for the same.
You are requested to forward the abstract of your paper at earliest. Final paper can be submitted in month time. If you have already published some paper which you think is suitable for the book can also be reprinted.
Awaiting Response
Dr Kishor Bhanushali
Faculty - Economics
ICFAI Business School
ICFAI House
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