Table of Contents

VOLUME 7 2019

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EDITORIAL

Editorial

SECTION A: ARTICLES

• The implications of Article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities for the legal capacity of persons with psychosocial and intellectual disabilities in Ethiopia
• Merga Yadesa Dibaba

• Human rights and access to health care for persons with albinism in Africa
• Ebenezer Durojaye and Satang Nabaneh

• Conflicting discourses on conceptualising children with disabilities in Africa
• Shimelis Tsegaye Tesemma and Susanna Abigaêl Coetzee

• Right to self-representation for people with mental disabilities in Kenya’s courts
• Paul Juma

• The place of sign language in the inclusive education of deaf learners in Zimbabwe amid CRPD (mis)interpretation
• Martin Musengi

• Left in the periphery: An appraisal of voting rights for persons with disabilities in Zimbabwe
• Nkosana Maphosa, CG Moyo and B Moyo

SECTION B: COUNTRY REPORTS

• Tchad
• Serge Marcellin Tengho

• Mali
• Marianne Séverin

• Burundi
• Gerard Emmanuel Kamdem Kamga

• Republic of Congo
• Marianne Séverin & Chretien Fontcha

• South Sudan
• Innocentia Mgijima-Konopi, Theophilus M Odaudu & Reshoketswe Mapokgole

SECTION C: REGIONAL DEVELOPMENTS

• Leveraging the international human rights system to advance local change for South African women with disabilities
• Anastasia Holoboff & Suzannah Phillips

• The right to an adequate standard of living in the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Africa
• Yvette Basson

BOOK REVIEW

• Simon Foley: Intellectual disability and the right to a sexual life (2019)
• Charles Ngwena