Resources on Disability and Human Rights

Research Tips
A good starting point for general information on the CRPD is the UN Enable website (http://www.un.org/disabilities/). This is the official website of the Secretariat for the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities located within the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs. This website features recent events and publications from UN sources as well as information, publications and links on thematic areas relating to disability and human rights. The home page also provides an option to sign up for the UN Enable Newsletter.

The UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities also maintains a website (http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/CRPD/Pages/CRPDIndex.aspx) with links to its latest events, reports, jurisprudence and external links.

A. International instruments

International Labour Organization (ILO), Managing Disability in the Workplace (ILO Code of Practice, 2001). http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/—ed_emp/documents/publication/wcms_103324.pdf.
International Labour Organization (ILO), Convention (No. 159) and Recommendation (No. 168) Regarding Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment (2008). http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/—ed_emp/—ifp_skills/documents/publication/wcms_103529.pdf.
UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, General Comment 5: Persons with Disabilities (1994). http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/cescr/comments.htm.
UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, Recommendation No. 18: Disabled
Women (1991). http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/cedaw/comments.htm.
UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, General Comment 9: The rights of children with disabilities (2006). http://tb.ohchr.org/default.aspx?Symbol=CRC/C/GC/9.
UN General Assembly, Beijing Declaration on the Rights of People with Disabilities (2000).
UN General Assembly, Standard Rules on the Equalization of Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities, UN
Document A/RES/48/96 (December 20, 1993). http://www.un.org/documents/ga/res/48/a48r096.htm.
UN General Assembly, Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children, UN Document A/RES/64/142 (February 24, 2010). http://www.unicef.org/protection/alternative_care_Guidelines-English.pdf.

B. Regional Instruments – Europe

European Commission, Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions, European Disability Strategy 2010-2020: A Renewed Commitment to a Barrier-Free Europe, COM/2010/0636 (November 2010).
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:52010DC0636:en:NOT.
European Council, Council Directive establishing a General Framework for Equal Treatment in Employment and Occupation [Equality Employment Framework Directive], 2000/78/EC (November 27, 2000).
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:32000L0078:en:HTML.
Council of Europe, Recommendation of the Committee of Ministers to member states on achieving full participation through Universal Design, CM/Rec(2009)8 (October 21, 2009). https://wcd.coe.int/ViewDoc.jsp?id=1526681&Site=CM.
Council of Europe, Recommendation of the Committee of Ministers to member states on ageing and disability in the 21st century: sustainable frameworks to enable a greater quality of life in an inclusive society, CM/Rec (2009)6 (July 8, 2009). https://wcd.coe.int/ViewDoc.jsp?id=1470069&Site=CM.
Council of Europe, Recommendation of the Committee of Ministers to member states on the Council of Europe Action Plan to promote the rights and full participation of people with disabilities in society: improving the quality of life of people with disabilities in Europe 2006-2015 [Council of Europe Disability Action Plan 2006-2015], CM/Rec(2006)5 (April 5, 2006). https://wcd.coe.int/ViewDoc.jsp?id=986865.
Council of Europe, Recommendation of the Committee of Ministers to member states on deinstitutionalisation and community living of children with disabilities, CM/Rec(2010)2 (February 3, 2010). https://wcd.coe.int/ViewDoc.jsp?id=1580285&Site=CM.
Council of Europe, Recommendation of the Committee of Ministers to member states on the education and social inclusion of children and young people with autism spectrum disorders, CM/Rec(2009)9 (October 21, 2009). https://wcd.coe.int/ViewDoc.jsp?id=1526657&Site=CM.
Council of Europe, Recommendation of the Committee of Ministers to member states on the rights of children living in residential institutions, Rec(2005)5 (March 16, 2005). https://wcd.coe.int/ViewDoc.jsp?id=835953&Site=CM.
Council of Europe: Committee on the Rehabilitation and Integration of People with Disabilities, Recommendations and Guidelines to promote community living for children with disabilities and deinstitutionalization, as well as to help families to take care of their disabled child at home (December 31, 2007).
Council of Europe, European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT), CPT Standards: European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT), CPT/Inf/E(2002)1 – Rev. 2011 (2011), pp. 48-63. www.cpt.coe.int/en/documents/eng-standards.doc.
Council of Europe, Parliamentary Assembly, Recommendation 1592: Towards full social inclusion of people with disabilities (January 29, 2003). http://assembly.coe.int/main.asp?Link=/documents/adoptedtext/ta03/erec1592.htm.
European Parliament, Resolution on the Commission’s communication on equality of opportunity for people with disabilities, Official Journal C 132, 28/04/1997 P. 0313 (1996). http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:51997IP0044:EN:HTML.
European Parliament, Resolution on Threats to the Right to Life of Disabled Persons, Official Journal C 166, 10/06/1996 P. 0205 (1996). http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:51996IP0650:EN:HTML.
European Parliament, Resolution on the Human Rights of Disabled People, Official Journal C 017, 22/01/1996 P. 0196 (1995). http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:51995IP1494:EN:HTML.
WHO Regional Office for Europe, European Declaration on the Health of Children and Young People with Intellectual Disabilities and their Families, adopted at conference “Better health, better lives: children and young people with intellectual disabilities and their families,” Document EUR/51298/17/6 (November 26-27, 2010).
http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0015/121263/e94506.pdf.

C. Regional Instruments – Other

Organization of American States, Inter-American Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Persons with Disabilities (June 7, 1999). http://www.oas.org/juridico/english/treaties/a-65.html.
Organization of American States, Program of Action for the Decade of the Americas for the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities 2006-2016, Document AG/RES 2230 (2006). http://scm.oas.org/doc_public/ENGLISH/HIST_06/AG03332E07.doc.

D. Disability and Human Rights – General

Cojocariu C, Handicapping Rules: The Overly Restrictive Application of Admissibility Criteria by the European
Court of Human Rights to Complaints Concerning Disabled People (London: Sweet & Maxwell, 2011).
http://www.interights.org/campeanu/index.html.
Council of Europe, Commissioner for Human Rights, Human Rights and Disability: Equal rights for all
(October 20, 2008). https://wcd.coe.int/ViewDoc.jsp?id=1355349.
Ginnerup S, Achieving full participation through Universal Design, Adopted by the Committee on the Rehabilitation and Integration of People with disabilities (Council of Europe Publishing, April 2009). http://www.coe.int/t/dg3/disability/source/Universal_design.pdf.
Inclusion International, Priorities for People with Intellectual Disabilities in Implementing the United Nations Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities: The Road Ahead. http://ii.gmalik.com/pdfs/UN_brochure_screen.pdf.
Inclusion International, Hear Our Voices: People with an Intellectual Disability and their Families Speak Out on Poverty and Exclusion (2006). http://ii.gmalik.com/pdfs/Hear_Our_Voices_with_Covers.pdf.
Pineda V et al., Ensuring Rights in Development: Implementing the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities with select case studies from the MENA Region (Open Hands Initiative and Victor Pineda Foundation, 2011). http://www.openhandsinitiative.org/projectAreas/disabilityGuidebook.html.
Quinn G and Degener T et al., Human Rights and Disability: The current use and future potential of United Nations human rights instruments in the context of disability (United Nations, 2002). http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Publications/HRDisabilityen.pdf.
Quinn G et al, Study on challenges and good practices in the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (European Foundation Centre, October 2010). http://www.efc.be/Networking/InterestGroupsAndFora/Disability/Pages/Study.aspx.
Schulze M, Understanding the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (July 2010). http://www.equalityhumanrights.com/uploaded_files/humanrights/unconventionhradisabilities.pdf.
Theytaz-Bergman L and Trömel S, Guidance Document: Effective use of international human rights monitoring mechanisms to protect the rights of persons with disabilities (International Disability Alliance, May 2010).
United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN-DESA), the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), From Exclusion to Equality: Realizing the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Handbook for Parliamentarians on the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2007). http://www.un.org/disabilities/default.asp?id=212.
United Nations General Assembly, Thematic Study by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on enhancing awareness and understanding of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, A/HRC/10/48 (2009). http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/docs/10session/A.HRC.10.48.pdf.
United Nations General Assembly, Report of the united Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on progress on the implementation of the recommendations contained in the study on the human rights of persons with disabilities, A/HRC/4/75 (January 2007). http://www.un.org/disabilities/default.asp?id=135.
United Nations General Assembly, List of additional reports and resolutions by the UN General Assembly: http://www.un.org/disabilities/default.asp?id=36.
United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Monitoring the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Guidance for Human Rights Monitors, Professional training series No. 17, HR/P/PT/17 (2010). http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Publications/Disabilities_training_17EN.pdf.
United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Thematic study by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on enhancing awareness and understanding of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, A/HRC/10/48 (January 2009). http://www.un.org/disabilities/documents/reports/ohchr/A.HRC.10.48AEV.pdf.
Vasquez J, Human Rights & Health: Persons with Disabilities (Pan American Health Organization, 2008).
http://www.paho.org/english/dd/pub/10069_Disabilities.pdf.
World Health Organization, World Report on Disability. http://www.who.int/disabilities/world_report/2011/report/en/index.html.
WHO and World Bank, World Report on Disability (2011). http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2011/9789240685215_eng.pdf.

E. Health Care and Disability

European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, Inequalities and multiple discrimination in access to quality healthcare (March 2013). http://fra.europa.eu/en/publication/2013/inequalities-discrimination-healthcare.
Human Rights Watch, Involuntary Treatment: The Invisible Health Care Crisis (Mar 5, 2013). http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/03/05/involuntary-treatment-invisible-health-care-crisis.
Shakespeare T et al, “Disability and training of health professionals,” The Lancet 374, no. 9704 (November 2009): 1815-1816.
Stein MA, Stein P, Weiss D and Lang R, “Health care and the UN Disability Rights Convention” The Lancet 374, no. 9704 (November 2009): 1796-1798.
Stein M, Lord J and Weiss D, “Equal Access to Health Care under the UN Disability Rights Convention,” in Rhodes R et al. eds., Medicine and Social Justice Essays on Distribution and Care (Oxford University Press, 2012).
Tomlinson M et al, “Research priorities for health of people with disabilities: an expert opinion exercise” The Lancet 374, no. 9704 (2009): 1857-1962.
WHO, “Disability and Health” (2012). http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs352/en/index.html.

F. Disability and Reproductive and Sexual Health

Center for Reproductive Rights, Reproductive Rights and Women with Disabilities: Human Rights Framework (2002). http://www.handicap-international.fr/bibliographie-handicap/4PolitiqueHandicap/groupes_particuliers/Femmes_Genre/reproductive_rights.pdf.
Human Rights Watch, Sterilization of Women and Girls with Disabilities (November 2011).
http://www.hrw.org/news/2011/11/10/sterilization-women-and-girls-disabilities.
Leibowitz T, Dark Side of Protection: Forced Sterilization of Women with Disabilities (Open Society Foundations, 2011). http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/voices/dark-side-protection-forced-sterilization-women-disabilities.
Open Society Foundations, Sterilization of Women and Girls with Disabilities: A Briefing Paper (2011).
http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/sites/default/files/sterilization-women-disabilities-20111101.pdf
WHO and UNFPA, Promoting sexual and reproductive health for persons with disabilities: WHO/UNFPA guidance note (2009). http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2009/9789241598682_eng.pdf.

G. Education and Disability

Human Rights Watch, Futures Stolen: Barriers to Education for Children with Disabilities in Nepal (August 2011). http://www.hrw.org/reports/2011/08/24/futures-stolen.
Human Rights Watch, Impairing Education: Corporal Punishment of Students with Disabilities in US Public Schools (August 2009). http://www.hrw.org/reports/2009/08/11/impairing-education-0.
Inclusion International, The Implications for the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) for Education for All. http://ii.gmalik.com/pdfs/ImplicationsCRPD_dr2_X.pdf.
Inclusion International, Better Education for All: When We’re Included (2009). http://www.inclusion-international.org/resources/better-education-for-all-when-we-are-included-too/.
United Nations Human Rights Council, Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education, Vernor Muñoz: The right to education of persons with disabilities, A/HRC/4/29 (Feb. 19, 2007). http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Disability/Pages/UNStudiesAndReports.aspx.

H. Torture, Violence and Abuse and Disability

Equality and Human Rights Commission (UK), Hidden in plain sight: Inquiry into disability-related harassment (2011). http://www.equalityhumanrights.com/legal-and-policy/inquiries-and-assessments/inquiry-into-disability-related-harassment/hidden-in-plain-sight-the-inquiry-final-report/ [available in BSL and easy read formats].
European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, Making hate crime visible in the European Union: acknowledging victims’ rights (November 2012). http://fra.europa.eu/en/publication/2012/making-hate-crime-visible-european-union-acknowledging-victims-rights.
Human Rights Watch, “As if We Weren’t Human”: Discrimination and Violence against Women with Disabilities in Northern Uganda (August 2010). http://www.hrw.org/reports/2010/08/24/if-we-weren-t-human.
Human Rights Watch, “Like a Death Sentence”: Abuses against Persons with Mental Disabilities in Ghana,
(October 2012). http://www.hrw.org/reports/2012/10/02/death-sentence-0.
United Nations General Assembly, Interim report of the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, A/63/175 (July 28, 2008).
United Nations Human Rights Council, Report of the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, A/HRC/22/53 (Feb 2013).
United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Expert Seminar on Freedom from Torture and Ill Treatment and Persons with Disabilities: Report (Dec. 11, 2007). http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Disability/Pages/UNStudiesAndReports.aspx.

I. Women and Girls with Disabilities

Ediciones CINCA, Guide to gender mainstreaming in public disability policies (Feb 2012). http://www.oear.or.at/inter-national/europaeische-union/europaeisches-und-internationales-recht/GuidetoGenderMainstreaminginPublicDisabilityPolicies.pdf#page=233.
European Disability Forum, 2nd Manifesto on the Rights of Women and Girls with Disabilities in the European Union: a toolkit for activists and policymakers (adopted 2011). http://www.uildm.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/2ndmanifestoEN.pdf.
Ortoleva S and Lewis H, Forgotten Sisters – A Report on Violence Against Women with Disabilities: An Overview of its Nature, Scope, Causes and Consequences, Northeastern University School of Law Research Paper No. 104-2012 (August 2012). http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2133332.
Ortoleva S, “Inaccessible Justice: Human Rights, Persons with Disabilities and the Legal System”, 17 ILSA J. Int’l & Comp. L 281 (Spring 2011). http://www.womenenabled.org/pdfs/StephanieOrtoleva,InaccessibleJusticeHumanRights,PersonswithDisabilitiesandtheLegalSystem,17ILSAJ.Int’l&Comp.L.281(Spring2011)Final.pdf.
UN Enable, Women and girls with disabilities. http://www.un.org/disabilities/default.asp?id=1514.

J. Children with Disabilities

Ellery F, Lansdowne G and Csaky C, Out from the Shadows: Sexual Violence against Children with Disabilities (London: Save the Children, 2011).
Human Rights Watch, “US: Students with Disabilities face Corporal Punishment at Higher Rates: ACLU and Human Rights Watch Seek Ban on Physical Discipline at School” (August 10, 2009). http://www.hrw.org/news/2009/08/07/us-students-disabilities-face-corporal-punishment-higher-rates
Lord J and deFranco A, “The Human Rights of Children with Disabilities,” HUMAN RIGHTS YES! Action and Advocacy on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 2nd ed., Human Rights Education Series: Topic Book 6 (2008). http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/edumat/hreduseries/HR-YES/contents.html.
Pineda V, It’s About Ability: An explanation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNICEF, 2008). http://www.unicef.org/rightsite/files/itsaboutabilitychildfriendly.pdf.
UNICEF, Promoting the Rights of Children with Disabilities (Innocenti Digest 13, 2007). http://www.unicef-irc.org/publications/474.

K. HIV/AIDS and Disability

Elliott R, Utyasheva L and Zack E, “HIV, Disability and Discrimination: Making the Links in International and Domestic Human Rights Law,” Journal of the International AIDS Society (November 9, 2009).
http://www.jiasociety.org/index.php/jias/article/view/17605.
Groce N, “Rape of Individuals with Disabilities: AIDS and the Folk Belief of Virgin Cleansing” The Lancet 363, no. 9422 (2004): 1663-1664. http://www.gpdd-online.org/media/aids_2010/7b-aids_folk_belief_of_virgin_cleansing.pdf.
Hanass-Hancock J and Nixon S, The Fields of HIV and Disability: Past, Present and Future, Journal of International AIDS Society Journal of International AIDS Society (November 2009). http://www.jiasociety.org/index.php/jias/article/view/17615.
TACAIDS, The Forgotten: HIV and Disability in Tanzania (2009). http://www.ccbrt.or.tz/fileadmin/documents/publications/The_Forgotten.pdf.
UNAIDS, Advancing the Sexual and Reproductive Health and Human Rights of People Living with HIV (2008). http://data.unaids.org/pub/Manual/2009/20090730_srhr_of_plhiv_guidance_package_en.pdf.
UNAIDS, WHO, and OHCHR, Disability and HIV Policy Brief (April 2009). http://www.who.int/disabilities/jc1632_policy_brief_disability_en.pdf.
United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN-DESA), the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), Disability and HIV Policy Brief (April 2009). http://www2.ohchr.org/english/issues/hiv/docs/DisabilityandHIV_April2009.pdf.
World Bank, Disability and HIV/AIDS Fact Sheet (November 2004). http://v1.dpi.org/files/uploads/publications/factsheet.pdf.
World Bank, HIV/AIDS and Disability: Capturing Hidden Voices (2004). http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/NEWS/0,,contentMDK:20286633~menuPK:34457~pagePK:64003015~piPK:64003012~theSitePK:4607,00.html.

L. Disability and Development

United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Best Practices for Including Persons with Disabilities in All Aspects of Development Efforts (November 2011). http://www.un.org/disabilities/documents/best_practices_publication_2011.pdf.
United Nations Economic and Social Council, Forum on Indigenous Issues, Study on the situation of indigenous persons with disabilities, with a particular focus on challenges faced with regard to the full enjoyment of human rights and inclusion in development, E/C.19/2013/6 (February 5, 2013). http://www.un.org/disabilities/documents/ecosoc/e.c.19.2013.6.pdf.

M. Community Living – General

Disability Rights International and Comisión Mexicana de Defensa y Promoción de los Derechos Humanos, Abandoned and Disappeared: Mexico’s Segregation and Abuse of Children and Adults with Disabilities (2010). http://www.disabilityrightsintl.org/work/country‐projects/mexico/.
European Coalition for Community Living, Focus on Article 19 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2009). http://www.mhe-sme.org/assets/files/ECCL-Focus-Report-2009-final-high-res.pdf.
Human Rights Watch
Inclusion International
Mulheir G, “Deinstitutionalisation: A Human Rights Priority for Children with Disabilities,” The Equal Rights Review 9 (2012): 117-137. http://www.equalrightstrust.org/ertdocumentbank/err9_mulheir.pdf.
Open Society Mental Health Initiative, A Community for All: Implementing Article 19 – A Guide for Monitoring the Implementation of Article 19 of the Convention on the Rights of Disabilities (December 2011). http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/reports/community-all-implementing-article-19.
Open Society Foundations, Institutions Remain Dumping Grounds for Forgotten People (October 1, 2009). http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/publications/institutions-remain-dumping-grounds-forgotten-people.
Rosenthal E and Ahern L, “When Treatment is Torture: Protecting People with Disabilities Detained in Institutions,” Human Rights Brief 19, no. 2 (2012): 13-17. http://digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1817&context=hrbrief&sei-redir=1&referer=http%3A%2F%2Fscholar.google.com%2Fscholar%3Fstart%3D10%26q%3Dcrpd%2B19%26hl%3Den%26as_sdt%3D1%2C22#search=%22crpd%2019%22.

N. Community Living – Europe

Council of Europe, Commissioner on Human Rights, The Right of People with Disabilities to Live Independently and be Included in the Community (March 13, 2012). https://wcd.coe.int/ViewDoc.jsp?id=1917847.
The Council of Europe’s Human Rights Commissioner’s Human Rights Comment, Persons with disabilities have a right to be included in the community – and others must respect this principle (March 2012). http://commissioner.cws.coe.int/tiki-view_blog_post.php?postId=211.
European Association of Service Providers for Persons with Disabilities (EASPD) and Service Foundation, The Challenge is Ours! Deinstitutionalization of services for people with disabilities in Western European Countries (October 3-4, 2011). http://www.easpd.eu/Portals/easpd/Policy%20documents/DI%20in%20Western%20EU%20countries%20report.pdf.
European Coalition for Community Living
European Expert Group on the Transition from Institutional to Community-based Care
European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights
Mansell J, Knapp M, Beadle-Brown J and Beecham J, Deinstitutionalisation and Community Living: Outcomes and costs – a report of a European Study (Canterbury: Tizard Centre, University of Kent, 2007). http://www.kent.ac.uk/tizard/research/DECL_network/Project_reports.html.
Mental Disability Advocacy Center (MDAC)
Open Society Mental Health Initiative, Access to Education and Employment for People with Intellectual Disabilities: An Overview of the Situation in Central and Eastern Europe (October 2006). http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/reports/access-education-and-employment-people-intellectual-disabilities-overview-situation-central.
Parker C and Clements L, The European Union and the Right to Community Living: Structural Funds and the European Union’s Obligations under the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (Open Society Foundations, 2012). http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/sites/default/files/europe-community-living-20120507.pdf.
Parker C and Clements L, “The European Union Structural Funds and the Right to Community Living,”
The Equal Rights Review 9 (2012): 95-116. http://www.equalrightstrust.org/ertdocumentbank/err9_parker_clements.pdf.
Quinn G and Doyle S, “Taking the UN convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Seriously: The Past and Future of EU Structural Funds as a Tool to Achieve Community Living,” The Equal Rights Review 9 (2012): 69-94. http://www.equalrightstrust.org/ertdocumentbank/err9_quinn_doyle.pdf.
United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Regional Office for Europe

O. Supported Decision Making

Inclusion International, Position Paper – Key Elements of a System for Supported Decision-Making (2008). http://www.inclusion-international.org/wp-content/uploads/Position_Paper-Supported_Decision_Making1.pdf.
Kohn N, Blumenthal J and Campbell A, “Supported Decision-Making: A Viable Alternative to Guardianship?” (October 12, 2012). http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2161115.
Mental Disability Advocacy Center (MDAC), Supported Decision Making: An Alternative to Guardianship. http://www.mdac.info/en/resources/supported-decision-making-alternative-guardianship [available in English and Russian].
United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN-DESA), the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), From Exclusion to Equality: Realizing the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Handbook for Parliamentarians on the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2007), Chapter 6: Legal Capacity and Supported Decision-Making. http://www.un.org/disabilities/default.asp?id=242 [also available in French, Spanish, Russian, Arabic and Nepali].

P. Resource Guides and Periodicals

Disability World. http://www.disabilityworld.org/.
GLADNET: UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/edi/gladnet/unconvention_resources.cfm.
Syracuse University College of Law: International and Comparative Disability Law Web Resources. http://www.law.syr.edu/library/electronic-resources/legal-research-guides/humanrights.aspx.
UN Enable Newsletter. http://www.un.org/disabilities/default.asp?PID=312.
World Health Organization Disability and Rehabilitation Newsletter. http://www.who.int/disabilities/publications/newsletter/en/.

Q. Toolkits

Disabled Peoples’ International (DPI), Ratification and Implementation Toolkits (2008). http://www.icrpd.net/.
European Coalition for Community Living, Creating Successful Campaigns for Community Living: An advocacy manual for disability organizations and service providers (2008). http://www.community-living.info/?page=292.
World Health Organization, WHO Quality Rights Toolkit (2012). http://www.who.int/mental_health/publications/QualityRights_toolkit/en/.

R. Websites – General

Action on Disability and Development (ADD) International. http://www.add.org.uk/.
African Campaign on AIDS and Disability. http://www.africacampaign.info/.
The American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD). http://www.aapd.com/.
Disabled Peoples’ International. http://www.dpi.org/.
Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund. http://www.dredf.org/. [US]
Disability Rights International. http://www.disabilityrightsintl.org.
European Disability Forum. http://www.edf-feph.org/.
Handicap International. http://www.handicapinternational.be/
Inclusion International. http://www.inclusion-international.org/.
Inclusion Europe. www.inclusion-europe.org/
International Disability Alliance. http://www.internationaldisabilityalliance.org/en.
International Disability and Development Consortium. http://www.iddcconsortium.net/joomla/.
The International Disability and Human Rights Network. http://www.daa.org.uk/.
International Federation of Persons with Physical Disability (FIMITIC). http://www.fimitic.org/.
Leonard Cheshire Disability International. http://www.lcint.org.
Mobility International USA (MIUSA). http://www.miusa.org/.
Ratify Now. http://www.ratifynow.org/.
The Secretariat of the African Decade of Persons with Disabilities (SADPD). http://african-decade.co.za/.
TASH: Equity, Opportunity and Inclusion for People with Disabilities. http://tash.org. [US]
UN Enable. http://www.un.org/disabilities/.
U.S. International Council on Disabilities. http://www.usicd.org/template/index.cfm.
Women Enabled. http://www.womenenabled.org/.
World Federation of the Deaf. http://www.wfdeaf.org/.
World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry. http://www.wnusp.net.

S. Websites – Community Living

Canadian Association for Community Living. http://www.cacl.ca/.
European Coalition for Community Living. www.community-living.info/.
Inclusion Europe. www.inclusion-europe.org/
- e-Journal of Inclusion Europe (e-Include). http://www.e-include.eu/.
Inclusion International. http://www.inclusion-international.org/.
International Disability Alliance. http://www.internationaldisabilityalliance.org.
Mental Disability Advocacy Center. http://www.mdac.info/en.
Open Society Foundations: Mental Health. http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/topics/mental-health.
UN Enable. http://www.un.org/disabilities/.
UN Office of the High Commission for Human Right, Human Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Disability/Pages/DisabilityIndex.aspx.
WHO: Mental health, human rights & legislation. http://www.who.int/mental_health/policy/legislation/en/index.html.