The Human Rights Articles Review

Flynn, Eilionoir. Disabled Justice?: Access to Justice and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. New York: Ashgate Publishing, 2015.

Flynn focuses on the entire justice system regarding the issues affecting the disabled individuals. She analyzes the way persons with disabilities are treated in the justice system from the filing of complaints, investigations to the court hearings. The book goes further to explore the role of disabled people in the acquisition of justice fir instance being a witness, respondent, plaintiff, attorney, judge, and jury. The also examines the barriers in the society that affect the rights of the disabled such as lack of legal education and training, right to vote and be voted and advocacy on disabilities.

She is focused on the human rights and how the legal and justice system affects the minority in the society. Therefore, the book has addressed the issue on equality in the community and removal of any form of discrimination existing in the human rights sector.

Hannum, Hurst. "Contemporary Developments in the International Protection of the Rights of Minorities." Notre Dame Law Review (2014): 1431-1448.

Hurst addresses the contemporary issues on human rights especially the protection of the rights of the undermined and the minorities. He discusses all the legal frameworks internationally and treaties formed to enhance, develop and protect the rights of the minorities such as the disabled and women. His attention is on the United Nation’s agencies on the protection of human rights such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights organ that was established and adopted by the United Nation General Assembly in 1948 10th, December in Paris.

Newman, JoNel. "The Promise of Human Rights Analysis in Re-Constructing Disability Identity and Narrative." Social Science and Research Network (2015): 34.

Newman starts the article by indicating how the law on disabilities has been disabled. He examines the legal framework of the United States on the rights of the disabled. He then looks at the several identities given to persons with disabilities by analyzing the Social Security Administration. On this context, he features the disabling meta-narrative that has foisted movements on ant-discrimination, equality, and civil rights of the individuals with the disability. He looks at how the Social Security has failed to nurture and incorporate the most impoverished and vulnerable and create a concrete constituency by political identification.

The article further digs deep into the failure of the legal institutions such as the judiciary and federal agencies in recognition of civil rights for the persons with disability as one that the society views as defect or inability of a person. It concludes by exploring the alternatives in advocacy of the disabled through systematic and individualistic approaches. The author discusses the issue of human rights constructs as a means of embracing and utilization of universalism vulnerability and human frailty model.

Renteln, Alison Dundes. International Human Rights: Universalism Versus Relativism. New York: Quid Pro Books, 2013.

Alison Dundes focus on the universality of the human rights and the cultural relativism on the subject. She seeks to unite the two concepts by analyzing the impact and the principles of human rights. Therefore, she looks at how cultural relativism has affected the universality of human rights and ways to reduce the perception adherence to human rights as a western concept.

"United Nation." 10 December 1948. United Nation web site. 5 February 2016 www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/.

Lastly is that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights has been established as a legal framework and organ in the United Nations whose aim is to address the particulars in accessing and protection of human rights of every individual in the world. It has different sections examining or outlining the requirements for the human rights protection such as on the protection of rights of disability.