Human Rights Approach
A Shift in Perspective
In the past two decades, there has been a shift in perspective in development and relief aid, from an approach motivated by charity towards persons with disabilities to one based on rights. The human-rights-based approach to disabilities moves towards a standpoint that no longer sees the physical or intellectual limitations of an individual as the issue, but focuses rather on the person’s potential and human rights. This development goes along with the United Nation (UN) resolution of December 2003, adopting the Standard Rules on the Equalisation of Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities.
People with disabilities have the right to being included in decision-making on matters of their own behalf. They have the right to access basic health care and education and to earning livelihoods. CBM’s policy is to not only to look at a person’s impairment, but at the whole person and his or her social conditions. Thus, the human-rights approach makes CBM’s programmes right-oriented and promotes the inclusion of people with disabilities.
Further information: What is a disability?
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People with disabilities have the right to being included in decision-making on matters of their own behalf. They have the right to access basic health care and education and to earning livelihoods. CBM’s policy is to not only to look at a person’s impairment, but at the whole person and his or her social conditions. Thus, the human-rights approach makes CBM’s programmes right-oriented and promotes the inclusion of people with disabilities.
Further information: What is a disability?
Read more: Sustainability and Partner Enablement
Go back to: Principles
