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Direct linkMuir, Kristy; Goldblatt, Beth – Disability & Society, 2011
United Nation's conventions exist to help facilitate and protect vulnerable people's human rights: including people with disabilities (Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 2006) and children (Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989). However, for some families where a family member has a disability, there may be inherent…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Disabilities, International Law, Treaties
Braathen, Stine Hellum; Kvam, Marit Hoem – Disability & Society, 2008
The aim of this article is to give an overview of the daily life stories of 23 women with disabilities in Malawi. The stories were gained through qualitative interviews that covered aspects of being a woman and living with a disability in Malawi. Recent studies from countries in southern Africa have documented how people with disabilities…
Descriptors: Females, Disabilities, Foreign Countries, Biographies
Loeb, Mitchell; Eide, Arne H.; Jelsma, Jennifer; Toni, Mzolisi ka; Maart, Soraya – Disability & Society, 2008
The impact of disability on the living conditions of people living in specifically resource-poor areas in South Africa has not previously been addressed. This paper presents a comparison of people with a disability and their non-disabled peers with respect to some key poverty indicators among a sample of Xhosa speaking individuals in resource-poor…
Descriptors: Poverty, Economically Disadvantaged, Disabilities, Measures (Individuals)
