Ferri, Delia (2018) Reasonable Accommodation as a Gateway to the Equal Enjoyment of Human Rights: From New York to Strasbourg. Social Inclusion, 6 (1). pp. 40-50. ISSN 2183–2803

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The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) explicitly embeds the concept of reasonable accommodation within the principle of non-discrimination. Article 2 of the CRPD unambiguously recognizes that reasonable accommodation is vital in enabling persons with disabilities to enjoy and exercise their rights on an equal basis with others. This article argues that in the ten years since its entry into force, the CRPD has stimulated a process of cross-fertilization. In particular, it contends that the CRPD has played a crucial role in the advancement of disability equality, and in the recognition of reasonable accommodation as a gateway to the equal enjoyment of all human rights within the European human rights system. By adopting a legal perspective and a traditional doctrinal approach, this article focuses on relevant European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) case law. It shows the gradual adoption by the ECtHR of the concept of reasonable accommodation as an essential element to remove specific barriers or disadvantages to which a particular disabled individual would otherwise be subject. The primary emphasis of this short article is on the ECtHR case law and on the extent to which it has translated the CRPD and the work of the CRPD Committee into the European human rights system.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	disability; discrimination; equality; human rights; legislation; reasonable accommodation;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Law
Item ID:	11715
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.17645/si.v6i1.1204
Depositing User:	Delia Ferri
Date Deposited:	18 Nov 2019 11:34
Journal or Publication Title:	Social Inclusion
Publisher:	Cogitatio Press
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	Publisher
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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