ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the overarching legal context, with a focus on the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), as the global legal standard on disability rights and the normative point of reference for their implementation. It presents the key features of the CRPD, its general principles, and obligations. It then moves on to explore the human rights model of disability, stemming from the CRPD, which constitutes the theoretical framework of this book. In that connection, it also explores the model of inclusive equality put forward by the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD Committee). On the whole, this chapter aims to locate discussions about cultural participation of persons with disabilities within contemporary debates on disability rights and to link them to the CRPD, which represents a key legal framework for the socio-legal analysis propounded in this book.
