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Grassroots researchers examine the barriers and ways of implementing the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) in Africa.
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Introduction
Jeff Grischow & Magnus Mfoafo-M'Carthy1 Framing Disability Rights within African Human Rights Movements
Bonny Ibhawoh2 Legislation as a Care institution? The CRPD and Rights of Adults with Intellectual Disabilities in South Africa
Charlotte Capri3 Examining the Implementation of Inclusive Education in Zimbabwe
Tsitsi Chataika & Lincoln Hlatywayo 4 Barriers to the Implementation of Education Article 24 of the CPRD in Kenya
Billian Otundo5 A Disabled Disability Movement: The Paradox of Participation in Uganda
Herbert Muyinda & Susan Reynolds Whyte6 Implementation of the CPRD in Ethiopia: Grassroots Perspectives from the University of Gondar Community-Based Rehabilitation Programme
Mikyas Abera7 Knowledge and Utilization of the CRPD and Persons with Disabilities Act 715 of Ghana among Deaf People
Wisdom Kwadwo Mprah & Juventus Duorinaah8 CRPD Article 6 - Vulnerabilities of Women with Disabilities: Recommendations for the Disability Movement and Other Stakeholders in Ghana
Augustina Naami & Joana Okine9 Assessing the benefits of the CRPD in Cameroon: The Experience of Persons with Disabilities in the Buea Municipality
Wisdom Kwadwo Mprah, Maxwell Peprah Opoku & Bernard Nsaidzedze Sakah10African Ontology, Albinism and Human Rights
Elvis ImafidonConclusion
Jeff Grischow & Magnus Mfoafo-M'Carthy
Summary
Grassroots researchers examine the barriers and ways of implementing the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) in Africa.
