Developing A Disability And Human Right

‘We have Rights too’
Developing a Disability and Human Rights Approach to Health and Social Care: A Toolkit

Centre on Human Rights for Disabled People  2007

For further information on this toolkit, please contact:

Dr Bronagh Byrne
Research and Policy Officer [e-mail] Disability Action
Portside Business Park
189 Airport Road West
Belfast
Northern Ireland
BT3 9ED

Telephone: [phone]
Textphone: 028 9029 7878
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Contents

1. Introduction 1.1 Why a toolkit on disability, human rights and health and social care?

1.2 What are the toolkit aims and objectives?

1.3 Who is this toolkit for?

1.4 Getting Started

2. Human Rights and the Right to Health and Social Care

PART 1 - Introducing Human Rights

2.1 What are Human Rights?

2.2 Where do Human Rights come from?

2.3 How do International Human Rights work?

2.4 ‘Bringing Rights Home’ - The Human Rights Act (1998)

2.5 Do People with Disabilities have the Same or Different Human Rights as Everyone Else?

PART 2 - The Right to Health and Social Care

2.6 What is the Right to Health?

2.7 International Human Rights Law and the Right to Health and Social Care

2.8 The Human Rights Act 1998 and the Right to Health and Social care

PART 3 - A Human Rights-Based Approach to Health and Social Care

2.9 What is a Human Rights-Based Approach to Health and Social Care?

2.10 What are the Benefits of a Human Rights-Based Approach to Health and Social Care?

3. Facts about Disability in Northern Ireland

3.1 Disability in Northern Ireland

3.2 The Experience of Disadvantage

3.3 What are the key disability groups?

3.4 Who becomes ‘disabled’?

3.5 Disability and Multiple Identity

3.6 What counts as a ‘disability’?

3.7 What are the Individual and Social Models of Disability?

3.8 Disabled people’s protection under the law

4. Bridging the Gap: Disability and Human Rights