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The Human Rights-Based Approach to Disability

Online Course

16 November - 18 December 2015

The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) which entered into force in 2008, is a legally binding instrument that has been widely ratified. It is grounded in a human rights-based approach, moving away from previous models on disability, such as the medical model. This change is profound and is often recognized as a paradigm shift in the thinking on disability.

Understanding the human rights-based approach to disability is key to ensuring that policy-makers and other stakeholders who work on issues affecting the rights of persons with disabilities, can design laws, policies and programmes, in a way that is consistent with the CRPD.

UNITAR, with the support of the Inter-Agency Support Group for the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (IASG), is pleased to offer this e-Learning course. This course aims to advance a better understanding of the human rights-based approach to disability and to enable participants to identify gaps between existing policy and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, in order to implement it correctly.

Course Content

The course consists of 4 modules that are covered in a period of four weeks:

Module 1: What is (and what is not) disability?
Module 2: Introduction to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)
Module 3: Discrimination and anti-discrimination in the CRPD
Module 4: Crosscutting and innovative provisions in the CRPD

Course Fee and Application

The course is free of charge. Capacity is limited. Please apply before 12 November 2015: www.unitar.org/event/disability

Contact us

For more information, please send an e-mail to:

mariafernanda.betancourt@unitar.org