Persone con disabilità e diritti umani: relazioni problematiche

Persons with disabilities and human rights: troubled relationships. Following the adoption of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), scholars have extensively focused on the close relationship between persons with disabilities and their human rights. In this contribution, the Author starts from the assumption that the relationship between persons with disabilities and human rights can only be adequately understood by grasping its “plural” (i.e. “relationships” rather than “relationship”) and troubled dimension. She dwells on some of the most significant issues that in her view are: the “struggle” for rights (at first civil rights and then human rights) by persons with disabilities; the innovations introduced by the CRPD in the framework of international human rights law and its specificities; the problem of the effectiveness of disability human rights. Finally, she pays special attention to their violation occurred during the pandemic.