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<p>Disability is not a protected class under the Genocide Convention, even though disabled people across the world frequently face egregious human rights violations. Many of those practices should be considered genocide because they meet the criteria listed in the definition. In order to amount to genocide, an action must be committed with the intent to destroy a group, in whole or in part, by killing, causing serious harm, inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about destruction of the group, prevent births, or forcibly transfer children out of the group. Disabled people have been subjected to all these actions. By refusing to grant this group status as a protected class, the international community has allowed acts of genocide to continue into the twenty first century. To prevent future genocides against this group, and advance disability rights on a global scale, disabled people need the protections provided in the Genocide Convention.</p>
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Disability is not a protected class under the Genocide Convention, even though disabled people across the world frequently face egregious human rights violations. Many of those practices should be considered genocide because they meet the criteria listed in the definition. In order to amount to genocide, an action must be committed with the intent to destroy a group, in whole or in part, by killing, causing serious harm, inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about destruction of the group, prevent births, or forcibly transfer children out of the group. Disabled people have been subjected to all these actions. By refusing to grant this group status as a protected class, the international community has allowed acts of genocide to continue into the twenty first century. To prevent future genocides against this group, and advance disability rights on a global scale, disabled people need the protections provided in the Genocide Convention.

Destroying Disability: Expanding Application of the Genocide Convention

International and Comparative Law Review

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Disability is not a protected class under the Genocide Convention, even though disabled people across the world frequently face egregious human rights...

Destroying Disability: Expanding Application of the Genocide Convention

Published Online: Aug 19, 2021

Page range: 124 - 152

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/iclr-2021-0005

Keywords
Disability, genocide, expanding protection, human rights, disability rights, Genocide Convention

© 2021 Brickelle Bro, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Destroying Disability: Expanding Application of the Genocide Convention

Published Online: Aug 19, 2021

Page range: 124 - 152

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/iclr-2021-0005

KeywordsDisability, genocide, expanding protection, human rights, disability rights, Genocide Convention

© 2021 Brickelle Bro, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
Disability, genocide, expanding protection, human rights, disability rights, Genocide Convention