National and international anchoring of inclusive education
1. International documents and declarations
After the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Freedoms (United Nations, 1948), many international declarations and conventions have been issued in the last seventy years which apply to persons with different types of disabilities. Although they are not legally binding documents, they inspired national legislations to comply these important agreements. In practice, each contracting country should implement general resolutions of these documents into their own legal regulations that affect different areas of life of people with special needs in everyday life.
The most important milestones and international declarations concerning people with special needs
- 1971 - UN Declaration on the Rights of Mentally Retarded Persons
- 1975 - UN Declaration on the Rights of Disabled Persons
- 1993 - UN Standard Rules on the Equalization of Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities
- 1994 - The Salamanca Statement and Framework for Action on Special Needs Education (UNESCO)
- 2002 - Madrid Declaration (“Non-discrimination plus positive action equals social inclusion”)
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- 2006 - UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Read Article 3 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and choose three of general principles which you consider the most important of all: |
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