Yustisia
Vol 11, No 3: December 2022

Access to Justice: New Right or a Reaffirmation of Existing Human Rights for Persons with Disabilities?

Melaku T Zengeta (Lawyers with Disabilities Association (ELDA))



Article Info

Publish Date
25 Dec 2022

Abstract

The Convention for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), as a specific human rights instrument, seems to create a new disability-specific right to access justice under Article 13. This study analyzed the place of specific rights for people with disability to access justice in the CRPD. The article uses the conceptual approach related to the disability and human right at the international instrument. This study concludes that Article 13 of the CRPD has expanded the traditional conceptions of access to justice since it also covers effective remedy and fair hearing. Several inherent limitations, or impairments, which interact with multidimensional and inherent barriers, have prevented persons with disabilities from accessing justice based on equality. The article has shown that the new set of rights is a guarantee of justice. 

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Journal Info

Abbrev

Yustisia

Publisher

Subject

Law, Crime, Criminology & Criminal Justice Social Sciences

Description

The scope of the articles published in Yustisia Jurnal Hukum deal with a broad range of topics in the fields of Civil Law, Criminal Law, International Law, Administrative Law, Islamic Law, Constitutional Law, Environmental Law, Procedural Law, Antropological Law, Health Law, Law and Economic, ...