Disability, access to food and the UN CRPD: navigating discourses of human rights in the Netherlands

Abstract: In 2016, the Netherlands ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UN CRPD), one of the last developed nations to do so. In this article, we explore how equal access to food provides a lens through which barriers to implementing a rights-based approach to disability equality can be examined in countries that are historically resistant to such discourses. Through a literature review, policy research, and interviews with disabled people, representatives of disabled people's organisations, Dutch legal scholars, food researchers, and foodbanks, we have explored barriers to equal food access in the Netherlands, and current approaches to overcoming social, economic and physical barriers. Our analysis indicates that implementation of the UN CRPD and other relevant international and EU policies continues to be limited in the Netherlands due to narrow interpretations, leading to policies and practices that do not foster equal access to resources and environments

Location
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Extent
Online-Ressource
Language
Englisch
Notes
Veröffentlichungsversion
begutachtet (peer reviewed)
In: Social Inclusion ; 6 (2018) 1 ; 51-60

Event
Veröffentlichung
(where)
Mannheim
(when)
2018
Creator
Waltz, Mitzi
Schippers, Alice
Gittins, Elinor
Mol, Tanja

DOI
10.17645/si.v6i1.1160
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-2019080214245076188307
Rights
Open Access; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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  • Waltz, Mitzi
  • Schippers, Alice
  • Gittins, Elinor
  • Mol, Tanja

Time of origin

  • 2018

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