New approach needed to prevent human rights violations for people with disability

Published 24th September 2020

Australia needs to remedy its flawed interpretation of the UN’s Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) which is allowing human rights violations to occur, a new research paper says.  

A report from the University of NSW Social Policy Research Centre (SPRC) said Australia has not made adequate progress achieving rights for people with disability since the early days of the disability rights movement in the 1960s.

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Source:
Luke Michael, 2020, Probono Australia (https://probonoaustralia.com.au)