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Nothing About Us Without Us: Disability, Justice & Development

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Every reading this course assigns, module by module, with the best free copy we could find.

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Module 1. Module 1: Models & History: How We Think About Disability

  1. United Nations (2006). Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Article 1. Adopted by General Assembly resolution 61/106, 13 December 2006.Read it free
  2. Ghai, A. (2015). Rethinking Disability in India. Routledge.Publisher pageBook
  3. Addlakha, R. (ed.) (2013). Disability Studies in India: Global Discourses, Local Realities. Routledge.Publisher pageBook
  4. Ghosh, N. (ed.) (2016). Interrogating Disability in India: Theory and Practice. Springer (Dynamics of Asian Development).Publisher pageSubscription
  5. Oliver, M. (1996). Understanding Disability: From Theory to Practice. Macmillan.Publisher pageBook
  6. Shakespeare, T. (2014). Disability Rights and Wrongs Revisited, 2nd edition. Routledge.Publisher pageBook

Module 2. Module 2: The Rights Architecture: CRPD, Law & Entitlements

  1. United Nations (2006). Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Articles 2 and 4(3). Adopted by General Assembly resolution 61/106, 13 December 2006.Read it free
  2. Government of India (2016). The Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016 (Act No. 49 of 2016).Read it free
  3. Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities, Government of India (2017). The Rights of Persons with Disabilities Rules, 2017 (notified 15 June 2017).Read it free
  4. Government of Nepal (2017). The Act Relating to Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 2074 (2017). Nepal Law Commission English text.Read it free
  5. Government of Pakistan (2020). ICT Rights of Persons with Disability Act, 2020. Gazette of Pakistan, Extraordinary, 24 September 2020.Read it free
  6. United Nations (2006). Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Optional Protocol (full text). Adopted by General Assembly resolution 61/106, 13 December 2006.Read it free
  7. UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2014). General Comment No. 2 (2014), Article 9: Accessibility. CRPD/C/GC/2.Read it free
  8. UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2014). General Comment No. 1 (2014), Article 12: Equal Recognition before the Law. CRPD/C/GC/1.Read it free

Module 3. Module 3: Counting Disability & the Politics of Data

  1. United Nations (2006). Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Article 31. Adopted by General Assembly resolution 61/106, 13 December 2006.Read it free
  2. Washington Group on Disability Statistics. The Washington Group Short Set on Functioning (WG-SS): question set and rationale.Read it free
  3. World Health Organization (2022). Global Report on Health Equity for Persons with Disabilities. WHO, Geneva.Read it free
  4. Mitra, S. and Sambamoorthi, U. (2014). Disability prevalence among adults: estimates for 54 countries and progress toward a global estimate. Disability and Rehabilitation, 36(11), 940-947.Publisher pageSubscription

Module 4. Module 4: Barriers & Accessibility

  1. United Nations (2006). Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Article 9. Adopted by General Assembly resolution 61/106, 13 December 2006.Read it free
  2. UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2014). General Comment No. 2 (2014), Article 9: Accessibility. CRPD/C/GC/2.Read it free
  3. Center for Universal Design (1997). The Principles of Universal Design, Version 2.0. North Carolina State University.Read it free
  4. W3C Web Accessibility Initiative. WCAG 2 at a Glance. World Wide Web Consortium.Read it free

Module 5. Module 5: Disability & Development: Across the Sectors

  1. United Nations (2006). Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Article 24(2). Adopted by General Assembly resolution 61/106, 13 December 2006.Read it free
  2. Inter-Agency Standing Committee (2019). IASC Guidelines on the Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in Humanitarian Action. IASC.Read it free
  3. World Health Organization, UNESCO, ILO and International Disability Development Consortium (2010). Community-Based Rehabilitation: CBR Guidelines. WHO, Geneva.Read it free

Module 6. Module 6: Intersectionality

  1. United Nations (2006). Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Articles 6 and 7. Adopted by General Assembly resolution 61/106, 13 December 2006.Read it free
  2. Crenshaw, K. (1991). Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color. Stanford Law Review, 43(6), 1241-1299.Publisher pageSubscription
  3. Ghai, A. (2002). Disabled women: an excluded agenda of Indian feminism. Hypatia, 17(3), 49-66.Publisher pageSubscription

Module 7. Module 7: Inclusive Programming & MEL

  1. United Nations (2006). Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Article 33(3). Adopted by General Assembly resolution 61/106, 13 December 2006.Read it free
  2. CBM (2017). Disability Inclusive Development Toolkit. CBM, Bensheim.Read it free
  3. United Nations (2019). United Nations Disability Inclusion Strategy. United Nations, New York.Read it free

Module 8. Module 8: Voice, Movements & Culture

  1. United Nations (2006). Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Article 8. Adopted by General Assembly resolution 61/106, 13 December 2006.Read it free
  2. Chib, M. (2011). One Little Finger. SAGE Publications India.Publisher pageBook
  3. Young, S. (2014). I'm not your inspiration, thank you very much. TEDxSydney talk.Read it free
  4. Wong, A. (ed.) (2020). Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century. Vintage Books.Publisher pageBook

Module 9. Module 9: Practice, Ethics & Allyship

  1. United Nations (2006). Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Article 12. Adopted by General Assembly resolution 61/106, 13 December 2006.Read it free
  2. UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2014). General Comment No. 1 (2014), Article 12: Equal Recognition before the Law. CRPD/C/GC/1.Read it free
  3. Oliver, M. (1992). Changing the social relations of research production? Disability, Handicap and Society, 7(2), 101-114.Publisher pageSubscription

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