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This book evaluates the national implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) in ASEAN. Working with country-specific research teams?? the contributors compiled detailed case-studies of CRPD implementation in each country in ASEAN. This book presents a detailed overview of the problem?? the relevant literature?? and the conceptual framework?? and then it explores the implementation of the CRPD in each of the ten countries in Southeast Asia. Details include the factors that influenced each country to ratify the CRPD?? the focal point structure of implementation?? the independent mechanism established to monitor the implementation?? and the civil society organizations involved.

This book also evaluates the implications of CRPD implementa