Which Entitlements and for Whom?

What is ‘disability’? Who are ‘persons with disabilities’? What entitlements are legitimate and relevant in relation to ‘disability’? The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), adopted by the UN in 2006, provides answers to these questions. The answers have a dual heritage: International human rights law on the one side, and different models of disability developed within disability research and activism on the other. In this study, Anna Bruce explores the CRPD and its ide