DISABILITY RIGHTS
WHAT?
A global movement to secure equal opportunities and equal rights for all people with disabilities.
WHO?
Organizations of disability activists around the world working together with similar goals and demands.
Accessibility and safety in architecture, transportation, and physical environment.
Equal opportunities in employment, living, education and housing.
Freedom from discrimination, abuse, and right violantions.
WHY?
Break institutional, physical, and society barriers that prevent people with disabilities from living their lives like other citizens.
WHEN?
They started being known in all the world between 1955-1990
Still nowdays people suffer abuses.
WHERE?
Countries that recognize this rights are
Most European countries
United States
"American Disability Rights"
REFERENCES: Bagenstos, Samuel. Law and the Contradictions of the Disability Rights Movement (Yale University Press, 2009). Stroman, Duane. The Disability Rights Movement: From Deinstitutionalization to Self-Determination (University Press of America, 2003)