Concept
Disability rights movement
Overview
The disability rights movement is a global social movement, which seeks to secure equal opportunities and equal rights for all disabled people. It is made up of organizations of disability activists, also known as disability advocates, around the world working together with similar goals and demands, such as accessibility and safety in architecture, transportation, and the physical environment; equal opportunities in independent living, employment equity, education, and housing; and freedom from discrimination, abuse, neglect, and from other rights violations.
Disability activists are working to break institutional, physical, and societal barriers that prevent people with disabilities from living their lives like other citizens. Disability rights is complex because there are multiple ways in which a disabled person can have their rights violated in different socio-political, cultural, and legal contexts. For example, a common barrier that disabled individuals face is employment. Specifically, employers are often unwilling or unable to provide the necessary accommodations to enable disabled individuals to effectively carry out their job functions.
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Natural right, as distinguished from morals, is based upon the notion of justice, this being the outward manifestation of wisdom, or knowledge,--appreciation of the relation of actions to happiness. The definitions given by Leibniz are as follows: Just and unjust are what are useful or harmful to the public,--that is, to the community of spirits. This community includes first God, then humanity, then the state.
John Dewey, Leibniz's New Essays Concerning the Human Understanding
States what Disability rights movement is.
So far as such combinations of individuals are recurrent or stable, their nature and operations are definitely formulated and definitely enforceable. Partnerships, clubs, corporations, guilds, families are such stable unions, with their definite spheres of action. Buying and selling, teaching and learning, producing and consuming, are recurrent activities whose legitimate methods get prescribed. These specific…
John Dewey, Ethics
States what Disability rights movement is.
Nor is it only in our own country and in America that women are beginning to protest, more or less collectively, against the disabilities under which they labour. France, and Italy, and Switzerland, and Russia now afford examples of the same thing. How many more women there are who silently cherish similar aspirations, no one can possibly know; but there are abundant tokens how many _would_ cherish them, were they…
John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women
Close in meaning to Disability rights movement; the term itself is not named.
Related ideas
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Human rights
- Mental disorder
- Northern Ireland
- Self-determination
- United Kingdom
- Equality before the law
- Equal opportunity
- Oxford University Press
- Human brain
Place in the tradition
Part of Bioethics.
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