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The voting rights of adults with intellectual disabilities: reflections on the arguments, and situation in Kenya and England and Wales
- Source :
- Journal of Intellectual Disability Research. 56:1026-1035
- Publication Year :
- 2012
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 2012.
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Abstract
- Article 29 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities guarantees equality of political rights, including the right to vote and stand for election. The affirmation of these rights, first guaranteed by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, raises an important question given the long-standing association between political rights and beliefs concerning the abilities of citizens to reason and act independently: how and to what degree can people identified as having intellectual disabilities participate in a defining act of the democratic process? Focused specifically on the right to vote, this paper addresses the question by (1) introducing the debates that have surrounded the voting rights of this population; and (2) reporting on recent attempts in Kenya, and in England and Wales, to promote voting by people with intellectual disabilities. It concludes by considering the effectiveness of the different approaches these countries have adopted.
- Subjects :
- Human rights
Reservation of rights
Linguistic rights
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Rehabilitation
Fundamental rights
Right to property
Psychiatry and Mental health
International human rights law
Neurology
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
Law
Political science
Voting
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Neurology (clinical)
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Details
- ISSN :
- 09642633
- Volume :
- 56
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Intellectual Disability Research
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........cb503e0de2a7d23887fda9a274f31c50