Dr. Frank Conaty:

Article 30 of the UNCRPD requires us to ensure accessibility of cultural materials, activities and heritage. It also obliges us to enable persons with disabilities to have the opportunity to develop and utilise their creative, artistic and intellectual potential, highlighting the need for appropriate policies to enhance cultural participation of persons with disabilities. It follows that the implementation of policies of inclusion, which is implicit in human rights, needs to become much more explicit. Formal rights on their own without the explicit value of inclusion will not succeed. That is why nearly every single right in the UNCRPD has an inclusion angle.