7.9 CRPD (2006)

The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities — the paradigm-shift treaty: from the medical model (the disability as the person's condition to be treated) to the social model (the disability as the interaction between impairments and the environment's barriers — the removal duty); the accessibility-and-reasonable-accommodation doctrines (the accommodation's denial as discrimination); the legal capacity's recognition (Art 12 — the supported-decision-making revolution); the participation principle ("nothing about us without us"). The committee: the communications built into the Optional Protocol. Nepal: a party; the Disability Rights Act 2074's domestication (the social-model language); the accessibility-and-implementation gaps as the honest audit. Exam Focus Long questions: (i) The nine-treaty architecture (the master table's columns: years, committees, cores, Nepal's status) + the common anatomy (reporting, general comments, optional complaints); (ii) Any THREE treaties in depth (ICCPR's machinery; ICESCR's progressive realization; CEDAW's definition and measures; CAT's absolute- prohibition architecture; CRC's four principles; CRPD's paradigm shift); (iii) The Nepal angle: the seven-of-nine record, the pending ICRMW/CPED accessions with their Nepali stakes (the migrants; the conflict-era disappearances). Short questions: the Art 14 CERD declarations; the First Optional Protocol; aut dedere aut judicare; the urgent actions; reasonable accommodation. Trick areas: (i) The ICCPR's and ICESCR's in-force dates are both 1976 (the simultaneous entry — the two Covenants born together); (ii) The CEDAW's Optional Protocol is SEPARATE from the…