Includes bibliographical references and index.

A short history of the international disability rights movement / Maya Sabatello -- Our lives, our voices : people with intellectual disabilities and their families / Anna MacQuarrie and Connie Laurin-Bowie -- Living in the community, access to justice : having the right makes all the difference / Tirza Leibowitz -- Inclusion or choice? : securing the right to inclusive education for all / Belinda Shaw -- An eye toward effective enforcement : a technical-comparative approach to the drafting negotiations / Tara J. Melish -- Children with disabilities / Gerison Lansdown -- Women with disabilities : the Convention through the prism of gender / Mi Yeon Kim -- Including deaf culture and linguistic rights / Liisa Kauppinen and Markku Jokinen -- Imagine : to be a part of this / Lex Grandia -- Indigenous people with disabilities : the missing link / Huhana Hickey -- At the United Nations : "the South also exists" / Pamela Molina Toledo -- Voices down under : an Australian perspective / Heidi Forrest and Phillip French -- Monitoring the Convention's implementation / Marianne Schulze -- The role of national human rights institutions / Andrew Byrnes -- The new diplomacy / Maya Sabatello.