ABSTRACT
This chapter examines whether international child law (ICL) can learn any lessons from recent developments in international disability law (IDL). It discusses the new rights for children with disabilities to be found in the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). The CRPD aims to implement a sophisticated strategy in pursuit of the goal of equal rights for children with disabilities. It adopts different approach from that taken in the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). Don Mackay, the chair of Ad Hoc Committee on Comprehensive and Integral Convention to Promote and Protect the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities, did not actually say that CRPD was not intended to create new rights. The right to physical and mental integrity is inherent in many of CRC's articles, such as Article 19 right to freedom from all forms of physical or mental violence, injury or abuse, neglect or negligent treatment, maltreatment or exploitation, including sexual abuse.
