Disability and General Recommendations of UN Human Rights Committees: An asymmetric relationship between invisibility, medical model and human rights model

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to determine the level of inclusion of Disability in the UN Committees General Comments, and if this is done from a human rights perspective. The methodology used focuses on a critical and emancipatory analysis. In particular investigated the different approached used (mainstreaming or specific treatment, discrimination definition, disability model used) and it also compares with other excluded groups. The analysis allows to show different level of commitment with disability, the asymmetric treatment, the lacks in understanding disability as a human rights issue. The main finding is the need of a compulsory expansion of the Convention of the rights of persons with disabilities.