ABSTRACT
Adopted in 2006, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) is the outcome of three decades of activism led by the disabled persons’ movement, both at local and global levels (Kanter, 2014; United Nations, 2006). Indeed, the emergence of the movement for the rights of persons with disabilities can be traced back to the 1970s, when in the United Kingdom and North America, a small group of persons with disabilities came together to confront charity-based and medicalised approaches to disability and to claim their equal right to independent living, opportunities, inclusion and social participation (Barnes & Mercer, 2010). In the decades preceding the adoption of the Convention, this group grew larger and became a global movement that was influential in the drafting of the CRPD (Lindqvist, 2011).
