Synopsis The disability rights debate is not so much about the enjoyment of specific rights as it is about ensuring the equal effective enjoyment of all human rights, without discrimination, by people with disabilities. The non-discrimination principle helps make human rights in general relevant in the specific context of disability, just as it does in the contexts of age, sex and children.

Non-discrimination, and the equal effective enjoyment of all human rights by people with disabilities are therefore the dominant theme of the long overdue reform in the way disability and the disabled are viewed throughout he world.