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Article 30 [Participation in Cultural Life, Recreation, Leisure and Sport]

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Article 30 has been the subject of extensive discussion during the travaux préparatoires of the Convention. It provides for the right of persons with disabilities to participate in cultural life and their participation in recreational, leisure, tourism and sports activities in a position of equality with others. We are dealing with another key norm of the Convention. In particular, the provision contains a list of the types of measures that all Contracting Parties have the obligation to adopt in order to ensure the exercise of such right and the inclusion of persons with disabilities in all of the above activities. In addition, it includes special measures for the protection of children with disabilities.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    See Report by the Chairman, Sixth Session of the Ad hoc Committee on a Comprehensive and Integral International Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities, available at www.un.org/esa/soedev/enable/rights/ahesta30ssrepchair.htm. Accessed April 23, 2015.

  2. 2.

    Ibid.

  3. 3.

    Ibid.

  4. 4.

    Ibid.

  5. 5.

    For an overview on the right to cultural life in international law, see, among others, Stamatopoulou (2007), Donders (2007), and Ferri (2014).

  6. 6.

    CESCR, General Comment No. 5: Persons with Disabilities, December 9, 1994, E/1995/22, para. 5.

  7. 7.

    See CESCR, General comment No. 21, Right of everyone to take part in cultural life (art. 15, para. 1a of the Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights), December 21, 2009, E/C.12/GC/21, para. 13.

  8. 8.

    See UNGA Resolution 48/96. For more details on the Standard Rules, see, among others, Saulle (1998).

  9. 9.

    See CRPD Committee, General Comment No. 2, Article 9: Accessibility, CRPD/C/GC/2, para. 44.

  10. 10.

    Ibid., para. 16.

  11. 11.

    On this issue, see, among others, Hess-Klein (2013), Rekas (2013), and Li and Selvadurai (2014).

  12. 12.

    See WHO, Fact Sheet n. 282 (Updated August 2014), available in www.who.int. Accessed May 2, 2015.

  13. 13.

    See Concluding Observations on Costa Rica, CRPD/C/CRI/CO/1, May 12, 2014, paras. 61–62; Concluding Observations on Azerbbaijan, CRPD/C/AZE/CO/1, May 12, 2014, paras. 46–47; Concluding Observations on Sweden, CRPD/C/SWE/CO/1, May 12, 2014, paras. 53–54; Concluding Observations on Denmark, CRPD/C/DNK/CO/1, October 30, 2014, paras. 62–63; Concluding Observations on New Zealand, CRPD/C/NZL/CO/1, October 31, 2014, paras. 65–66.

  14. 14.

    See the Report by the Chairman, Sixty Session of the Ad hoc Committee on a Comprehensive and Integral International Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities, cit.

  15. 15.

    For further discussion on the recognition of sign language within the CRPD, see generally Ball (2011).

  16. 16.

    For a more general view on this issue, see, among others, Roy (2007), quoted; Fay and Wolff (2009); Lord and Stein (2009), quoted. With reference to sport activities see also International Disability in Sport Working Group, in partnership with the United Nations Office of the Special Advisor to the Secretary-General on Sport for Development and Peace (2007).

  17. 17.

    See Lord and Stein (2009), p. 264.

  18. 18.

    Emphasis added.

  19. 19.

    See Ad Hoc Committee on a Comprehensive and Integral International Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities, Daily summary of NHRIs discussion at the Seventh session, January 27, 2006, available at www.un.org/esa/socdev/enable/rights/ahc7sum27jan.htm. Accessed May 10, 2015.

  20. 20.

    See Roy (2007), p. 7.

  21. 21.

    Emphasis added. On this Report, see again Roy (2007), p. 6.

  22. 22.

    See CRC Committee, General Comment No. 9 (2006): The rights of children with disabilities, CRC/C/GC/9, para. 8.

  23. 23.

    Ibid., para. 70.

  24. 24.

    See Article 9 [Accessibility] in this Commentary.

  25. 25.

    See Olivetti (2001), p. 205. On this point, see also Carletti (2005).

  26. 26.

    See European Commission, Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions, European Disability Strategy 2010–2020: A Renewed Commitment to a Barrier-Free Europe. COM (2010) 636 final, p. 5.

  27. 27.

    Ibid., p. 6.

  28. 28.

    O.J. L 167, 22.06.2001.

  29. 29.

    See European Commission, Report on the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) by the European Union. SWD (2014) 182 final, p. 40.

  30. 30.

    On the access to transport for persons with disabilities, see generally Camarda (2011).

  31. 31.

    O.J. L 204, 26.07.2006.

  32. 32.

    O.J. L 315, 3.12.2007.

  33. 33.

    O.J. L 334, 17.12.2010.

  34. 34.

    O.J. L 55, 28.02.2011.

  35. 35.

    See European Commission, Report from the Commission to the European parliament and the Council. Report on the Application of Regulation (EC) No. 1371/2007 of the European Parliament and of the Council of October 23, 2007 on Rail Passengers’ Rights and Obligations, COM (2013) 0587 final.

  36. 36.

    Ibid., para. 2.1.2.

  37. 37.

    Ibid., para. 2.2.

  38. 38.

    See European Commission, White Paper on Sport, COM (2007) 391 final, para. 2.

  39. 39.

    Ibid., para. 2.5.

  40. 40.

    Ibid.

  41. 41.

    See European Commission, Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions, Developing the European Dimension in Sport. COM (2011) 12 final, para. 2.5.

  42. 42.

    Ibid.

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Manca, L. (2017). Article 30 [Participation in Cultural Life, Recreation, Leisure and Sport]. In: Della Fina, V., Cera, R., Palmisano, G. (eds) The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43790-3_34

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