• Qatar before the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 

      Qutteina, Yara; Aviles, Maria del Carmen Barranco; Al-Ali, Khalid; de Asis, rafael; del Pozo, Pablo Rodriguez ( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2018 , Conference Paper)
      Background: The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (the CRPD) is the first human rights treaty of the 21st century and the first binding instrument specifically focused on protecting persons with ...
    • The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities from a Qatari Human Rights Perspective 

      Avilés, María del Carmen Barranco; Serra, María Laura; Khadri, Sabah; Gómez, Patricia Cuenca; Roig, Rafael de Asís; ... more authors ( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2016 , Conference Paper)
      For a long time disability was considered a question of social development, outside the responsibilities of official human rights institutions. Over the last three decades this approach has evolved, and disability is now ...