Abstract

Inaccessible Justice: Human Rights, Persons with Disabilities and the Legal System

Spring 2011

By Stephanie Ortoleva
17 ILSA J. Int’l & Comp. L. 281

This paper focuses on the important concept of access to justice and what it means to persons with disabilities. It also addresses how the United Nations (UN) Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) provides for awareness of the requirements to provide access to justice for persons with disabilities.

Part II seeks to answer the question of what is access to justice and why it is important for persons with disabilities.

Part III outlines the legal framework in which this right is developed. Subpart A explores the right under the CRPD.

Part IV highlights specific areas of denials of access to justice for persons with disabilities.

Part V briefly outlines some common barriers to disability inclusion in rule of law and justice reform programming.

Part VI outlines effective strategies for achieving inclusion of disabled persons in rule of law and justice reform programming.

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