Abstract
People with disorders of intellectual development (DID) face unique challenges, including a history of discrimination and exclusion from meaningful choice and participation in society, cultural attitudes of devaluation, and social failure to provide the supports needed.
In 2006, the United Nations adopted a Convention which represents a legal, political, and development instrument, elaborated and monitored together with people with disabilities themselves. Its main purpose is to promote, protect, and ensure the full and equal enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms by all persons with disabilities, and to promote respect for their inherent dignity.
The protection of human rights is linked to the cultural and social construction of inclusive societies, where prejudices and barriers are eliminated and everyone can live without his personal characteristics being stigmatized. This opens up a new field of cultural and political action that involves society as a whole.
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Bertelli, M.O., Rondini, E., Banks, R. (2022). Human Rights. In: Bertelli, M.O., Deb, S.(., Munir, K., Hassiotis, A., Salvador-Carulla, L. (eds) Textbook of Psychiatry for Intellectual Disability and Autism Spectrum Disorder. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95720-3_42
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