17, 2013), at OCHA Services, Hidden Victims of the Syrian Crisis: Disabled, Injured, and Older Refugees, ReliefWeb (Apr. 15, 2019), at OHCHR, Persons with Disabilities “Forgotten Victims” of Syria's Conflict (Sept. See Nisan Ahmado, Disabled Victims Are Syrian War's Most Vulnerable, Extremism Watch, VOA News (Mar. 24, 2003).ģ2 Parenthetically, reports on the ongoing armed conflict in Syria shed light on grave violations of international law against persons with disabilities left behind as families were forced to flee, and also for individuals in institutional facilities.
97 (Charles Ngwena & Frans Viljoen eds., 2014) see also Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Africa, available at Council of Europe Committee of Ministers, Council of Europe Action Plan to Promote the Rights and Full Participation of Persons with Disabilities in Society: Improving the Quality of Life or People with Disabilities in Europe 2006–2015, Rec(2006)5, at United Nations Economic and Social Council, Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, Biwako Millennium Framework for Action Towards an Inclusive, Barrier-Free and Rights-Based Society for Persons with Disabilities in Asia and the Pacific, UN Doc. Lord & Michael Ashley Stein, Prospects and Practices for CRPD Implementation in Africa, 1 Afr. Lord & Michael Ashley Stein, The Domestic Incorporation of Human Rights Law and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 83 U.