Monitoring and Indicators of Disability Rights: Introduction

This introduction offers a brief overview of the key challenges that the stakeholders involved in the monitoring of the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities are facing, opportunities for engagement with national and international human rights mechanisms and the best practices of participatory monitoring led by disabled people and their representative organizations. It introduces readers to the content of seven chapters written by contributors which come from different spheres of work and include activists from civil society, human rights professionals from intergovernmental organizations, academic researchers, and disabled people themselves. The readers will be able to get a glimpse of the contributions which tackle some of the contemporary issues in the field of monitoring and indicators of disability rights mapping out the challenges and potential solutions to advance human rights monitoring holding governments accountable to the population of disabled people worldwide.