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Download or read book African Disability Rights Yearbook Volume 7 2019 written by and published by Pretoria University Law Press. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African Disability Rights Yearbook Volume 7 2019 2019 ISSN: 2311-8970 Pages: 279 Print version: Available Electronic version: Free PDF available About the publication The African Disability Rights Yearbook aims to advance disability scholarship. Coming in the wake of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, it is the first peer-reviewed journal to focus exclusively on disability as human rights on the African continent. It provides an annual forum for scholarly analysis on issues pertaining to the human rights of persons with disabilities. It is also a source for country-based reports as well as commentaries on recent developments in the field of disability rights in the African region. Table of Contents EDITORIAL SECTION A: ARTICLES The implications of Article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities for the legal capacity of persons with psychosocial and intellectual disabilities in Ethiopia Merga Yadesa Dibaba Human rights and access to health care for persons with albinism in Africa Ebenezer Durojaye and Satang Nabaneh Conflicting discourses on conceptualising children with disabilities in Africa Shimelis Tsegaye Tesemma and Susanna Abigaêl Coetzee Right to self-representation for people with mental disabilities in Kenya’s courts Paul Juma The place of sign language in the inclusive education of deaf learners in Zimbabwe amid CRPD (mis)interpretation Martin Musengi Left in the periphery: An appraisal of voting rights for persons with disabilities in Zimbabwe Nkosana Maphosa, CG Moyo and B Moyo SECTION B: COUNTRY REPORTS Tchad Serge Marcellin Tengho Mali Marianne Séverin Burundi Gerard Emmanuel Kamdem Kamga Republic of Congo Marianne Séverin and Chretien Fontcha South Sudan Innocentia Mgijima-Konopi, Theophilus M Odaudu and Reshoketswe Mapokgole SECTION C: REGIONAL DEVELOPMENTS Leveraging the international human rights system to advance local change for South African women with disabilities Anastasia Holoboff & Suzannah Phillips The right to an adequate standard of living in the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Africa Yvette Basson BOOK REVIEW Simon Foley: Intellectual disability and the right to a sexual life (2019) Charles Ngwena