Emily Julia Kakoullis discusses the journey towards ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD 2006) in Cyprus and considers how the Cypriot context struggled to embrace the consultative and participatory culture that is found in the CRPD. She shows that where States create formal structures for consultation, these may be inadequate to truly embed the spirit of the Disability Movement’s mantra ‘Nothing About Us Without Us!', if the governmental will is not there. Kakoullis reveals that despite the challenges during Cyprus’s ratification process, there was some change regarding the practice of consultation with disabled people’s organisations (DPOs).
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Kakoullis, E. J. (2020). A consultative culture? The ratification process for the CRPD in Cyprus. In Recognising Human Rights in Different Cultural Contexts: The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) (pp. 157–177). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0786-1_8
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