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Abstract
International and national level disability inclusive discourse, policy and strategy typically render invisible the institutional structures, political economies and socio-cultural power relations that constitute the lived experience of disability. The lack of robust information on disability extends these theoretical blind spots to the absence of disability in official statistics, political dialogue and social policy. Empirically grounded, inclusive research that recognises disability as embedded in globalised political economies and culturally specific power relations is required to address the theoretical, statistical and programmatic invisibility of disability. Such research will provide a solid knowledge base on which to build effective inclusive interventions.
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Notes
1. On its opening for signature on 30 March 2007, the CRPD was signed by 81 nations and the European Union, which is the highest number of opening signatures recorded for any human rights treaty (French, Citation2007).
2. The BMF builds on the agenda for action that guided the first Asian and Pacific Decade of Disabled Persons and outlines a set of principles, strategies, goals, targets, and directives for action. The BMF forms a comprehensive set of guidelines for countries to use in developing policies and planning and implementing programmes for persons with disabilities (PIFS, Citation2009, p. 6).
3. The Cook Islands, Nauru and Vanuatu have ratified and Fiji, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Tonga, Federated States of Micronesia and Solomon Islands have signed (UN Enable, Citation2013, http://www.un.org/disabilities/countries.asp?navid=12&pid=166, accessed May 14, 2013).
4. Six key areas were identified: strengthening political leadership and enabling environments; recognition and protection of human rights of people with disabilities; strengthening partnerships; disability inclusive development; enhancing the central role of people with disabilities, and mobilising resources (PIFS Citation2009, p. 9).
5. Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, New Caledonia, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu.
6. Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Samoa (PDF/PIFS, Citation2012).
7. Solomon Islands Government signed the International Convention on Social and Cultural Rights in 1982, the Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1995, and ratified the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women in 2002.