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7 - Conclusion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 August 2023

Julia Duffy
Affiliation:
Queensland University of Technology
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Chapter 7 summarises the book’s findings and explains their implications for advocacy and law reform. It argues that recognition of the indivisibility of human rights is important to ensure that targeted services are provided for people with disability to address their disproportionate levels of socio-economic disadvantage. It decries the privileging of civil and political rights especially the right to legal capacity over all other rights, for encouraging the ‘lazy state’ that erroneously justifies its neglect of marginalised people in the name of upholding their human rights. It provides the example of personalised or individualised services premised on simplistic notions of choice and control, which often fail to uphold the rights of people with cognitive disabilities. It stresses the importance for the state and community of acknowledging difference to promote services that ensure civil, economic, political, social and cultural inclusion in all cases.

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Print publication year: 2023

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  • Conclusion
  • Julia Duffy, Queensland University of Technology
  • Book: Mental Capacity, Dignity and the Power of International Human Rights
  • Online publication: 03 August 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009304481.007
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  • Conclusion
  • Julia Duffy, Queensland University of Technology
  • Book: Mental Capacity, Dignity and the Power of International Human Rights
  • Online publication: 03 August 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009304481.007
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  • Conclusion
  • Julia Duffy, Queensland University of Technology
  • Book: Mental Capacity, Dignity and the Power of International Human Rights
  • Online publication: 03 August 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009304481.007
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