Год выпуска: 2011 Автор: Safinas Ahayeva Издательство: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Страниц: 72 ISBN: 9783843388474
Описание
It took a lot of time before human rights of people with disabilities occupied its niche within the international framework of human rights protection. However,there is a lot of evidence that human rights violations of people with disabilities are still very common. Discrimination,ill-treatment,intrusion into private life, deprivation of rights to study and to work is far from being a full list of violations these people face on a daily basis. Yet, perhaps one of the most blatant human rights abuses is the removal of legal capacity,when an individual becomes "no one" from legal point of view,and a guardian is appointed as his substitute in all legal affairs-a legal concept existing in relation to people with mental disabilities in many post-Soviet countries. The book provides analysis of human rights implications of this "one-size-fits-all" legal concept under legislation of Russia and proves its inconformity with human rights standards. Tracing in addition the development of...
