Children with disabilities: rights, discrimination, and poverty

Nils Kastberg

Chapter 25 in Handbook on Child Poverty and Inequality, 2025, pp 421-438 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Since 2000, no significant progress has been achieved for persons living with different forms of disabilities, and the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) indicators will be worse for the majority of conditions by 2030 than the baseline of 1990. At the heart of this failure is the lack of awareness among governments, as well as the staff of the UN, the Red Cross movement, and international and national relief organisations. This chapter seeks to establish some basic distinctions that can better guide public policy formulation at local, regional, and national levels. Above all, it advocates for the need for all typical persons to “see”, to be aware, to take inclusive action for persons with any condition (disability) that puts them at a disadvantage, and provides in layman's language some crucial areas where awareness is needed to initiate change.

Keywords: Disability; Inclusion; Deprivation; Conditions and syndromes; Neurovariations; Multidimensional poverty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781802200423
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