African Disability Rights Yearbook Volume 10 2022
Edited by Charles Ngwena, Helene Combrinck, Serges Djoyou Kamga & Nkatha Murungi
2022
ISSN: 2311-8970
E-ISSN: 2413-7138
Pages: 261
Print version: Available
Electronic version: Free PDF available
About the publication
The editors of the African Disability Rights Yearbook (ADRY) are pleased to announce the publication of the tenth volume of the ADRY.
Section A of this volume features six articles by: Yohannes Takele Zewale on the need to go beyond ratifying the Marrakesh VIP Treaty; Shirley Genga and Meryl du Plessis on a critical analysis of the duty to provide reasonable accommodation for employees with psychosocial conditions as an employment anti-discrimination obligation; Prince- Oparaku Uzoma and Ngozi Chuma-Umeh on imperatives of securing equitable access to healthcare services for persons with disabilities in Nigeria; Alexious E Silombela Kamangila on advance directives in mental health; Thina Mthembu and Willene Holness on criteria for law reform on comprehensive sexuality education for children with disabilities in South Africa; and Zahra Hosaneea on reservation on the CRPD from a Mauritian perspective.
Section B contains four country reports by: Soka Armelle Ngoutane Peyou on Burkina Faso; Serge Marcellin Tengho on Cape Verde; Gerard Emmanuel Kamdem Kamga on Seychelles and Marianne Severin on Somalia.
Section C on regional developments contains two commentaries by: Paul Ochieng Juma on the Marrakesh Treaty and African copyright laws; and Dianah Msipa on recognising the testimonial competence of persons with intellectual and psychosocial disabilities in Southern Africa.
The 2022 volume ends with a book review of Identity construction and illness narratives in persons with disabilities (2021) which is edited by Chalotte Glintborg and Manuel L de la Mata. The book is reviewed by Faith Njahîra Wangarî.
The financial assistance of the Open Society Institute Budapest Foundation (OSI) a Hungarian charitable foundation within the Open Society Foundations (OSF), in particular the Higher Education Support Project (HESP) is gratefully acknowledged.
Editors
Charles Ngwena (convening editor)
Heléne Combrinck
Serges Djoyou Kamga
Nkatha Murungi
Table of Contents
EDITORIAL
SECTION A: ARTICLES
The need to go beyond ratifying the Marrakesh VIP Treaty: the case of Ethiopia
Yohannes Takele Zewale
A critical analysis of the duty to provide reasonable accommodation for employees with psychosocial conditions as an employment anti-discrimination obligation: a case study of Kenya’s legal framework
Shirley Genga & Meryl du Plessis
Imperatives of securing equitable access to healthcare services for persons with disabilities in Nigeria
Uzoma Prince-Oparaku & Ngozi Chuma-Umeh
Advance directives in mental health: A solution that legitimatises the problem?
Alexious E Silombela Kamangila
Criteria for law reform on comprehensive sexuality education for children with disabilities in South Africa
Thina Mthembu & Willene Holness
Reservation on the CRPD from a Mauritian perspective
Zahra Hosaneea
SECTION B: COUNTRY REPORTS
Republique du Burkina Faso
Soka Armelle Ngoutane Peyou
Republique du Cap-Vert
Serge Marcellin Tengho
Republique of the Seychelles
Gerard Emmanuel Kamdem Kamga
The Federal Republic of Somalia
Marianne Severin
SECTION C: REGIONAL DEVELOPMENTS
The Marrakesh Treaty and African copyright laws: Lessons for the African Region from Blind SA v Minister of Trade, Industry and Competition
Paul Ochieng Juma
BOOK REVIEW
Chalotte Glintborg and Manuel L De La Mata (eds) Identity construction and illness narratives in persons with disabilities (2021)
Faith Njahîra Wangarî