The Global Governance of Disability Rights: Complexities, Participatory Trends and Intersections

Delia Ferri, Andrea Broderick and Ann Leahy

Chapter 14 in Research Handbook on Global Governance, 2025, pp 299-329 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Debates on models of disability have underpinned the evolution of disability rights at the international level, culminating in the adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). The CRPD represents the main normative standard for the protection of disability rights and is situated at the core of a complex global governance system. This chapter traces the contours of this global governance of disability rights, mapping the diffusion of disability policies. It critically discusses the way in which different organisations have engaged in redressing the marginalisation experienced by people with disabilities. It identifies three key themes of such global governance: firstly, the legal complexity of multifaceted regimes of rights’ protection and intertwined disability policies; secondly, the growing role of civil society organisations in promoting disability rights; and, thirdly, the increasing intersectional approach to disability, with a focus on the (still neglected) intersection between age and disability.

Keywords: Governance; United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; Disability; Civil society intersectionality; Age (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781789906325
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