Keynote Address: Expanding Human Rights to Persons with Disabilities: Laying the Groundwork for a Twenty-First Century Movement

Authors

Yanghee Lee

Abstract

Dr. Lee’s keynote speech provides a brief history of disability rights as provided for by international human rights treaties. The speech focuses in particular on the Convention on the Rights of the Child (“CRC”) and the recently enacted Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities (“CRPD”). The CRC was the first treaty to include a specific provision dealing with the rights of children with disabilities. In this speech, Dr. Lee takes the position that although the CRPD does not create new rights for persons with disabilities, it still represents an important step forward. Dr. Lee emphasizes that the CRPD establishes a legal framework that explicitly addresses the needs and situations of persons with disabilities.

First Page

283

Recommended Citation

Yanghee Lee, Keynote Address: Expanding Human Rights to Persons with Disabilities: Laying the Groundwork for a Twenty-First Century Movement, 18 Pac. Rim L & Pol'y J. 283 (2009).
Available at: https://digitalcommons.law.uw.edu/wilj/vol18/iss1/11