Convenção sobre os direitos das pessoas com deficiência: como “invisíveis” conquistaram seu espaço

• Published in: Revista de Direito Internacional 2014-07, Vol.11 (1)
• Main Authors: Vittorati, Luana Da Silva, Hernandez, Matheus De Carvalho
• Format: Article
• Language: eng ; por ; spa
• Subjects: Human rights; Law; People with disabilities
• ISSN: 2236-997X; 2237-1036
• DOI: 10.5102/rdi.v11i1.2689

This work was conducted through bibliographic and documentary research, with the goal of analyze the juridical-political process at the international and national realms that led to the drafting of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its approval and reception at Brazilian legal system with constitutional amendment status. For this, we sought to understand the systematic of reception and incorporation of human rights treaties in the Brazilian legal system, demonstrating afterwards the importance of these instruments in the struggle for human rights. Due to the context of exclusion, vulnerability and invisibility that was and still is largely subjected the disabled people in Brazil, it is relevant to analyze how these individuals organized themselves around a struggle for human rights, so that they achieved not only the elaboration of an international convention that guaranteed their human rights, but also participation in this process. Finally, it is discussed the ghting for ratication of the Convention, achieved quickly and with the inedited status of Constitutional Amendment, capping an intense process of struggle for human rights. The paper concludes, in the end, that the participation of people with disabilities has had decisive importance in the processes leading to the achievements already mentioned and even has opened up a new way to ght for the rights of this group, now in transnational realm.