[THREAD] DISABILITY RIGHTS QUIZ
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1. What do the letters #CRPD stand for?
2. Has your country signed the #CRPD?
3. What does it mean if a country has 'ratified' the #CRPD?
4. Has your country ratified the #CRPD?
5. What's the gist of the Optional Protocol of the #CRPD?
6. Has your country signed the Optional Protocol of the #CRPD?
7. Which Article of the #CRPD talks about establishing an Independent Monitoring Mechanism (IMM)? State the number of the Article.
8. 9Has your country established an IMM in terms of the #CRPD?
9. What is #ableism?
11. YOUR VIEW: Give an example of #ableism that really bothers you.
12. Translate this slogan into your own language in the form of a hashtag:
Nihil de nobis sine nobis
Nihil de nobis sine nobis
13. What is the significance of the slogan "Nihil de nobis sine nobis" in respect of disability rights?
14. What is Arnstein's Ladder of Participation?
15. YOUR VIEW: Where on Arnstein's Ladder of Participation do you think disabled people should be when your government decides on services for disabled people?
This quiz occasionally includes a trick question, or a question that requires some assumptions to be explored before it's possible to answer the question. Feel free to challenge a question if you notice something like that.
TIP: For the next few questions, check out Module 1 of the #CRPD Training Guide. (You can download it for free.) Instead of copying the answers in full, just summarise.
16. What is the Charity approach to disability?
17. What is the Medical approach to disability?
18. What is the Social approach to disability?
19. What is the Human Rights approach to disability?
20. Which is the dominant approach to disability in the world today: the Charity approach, the Medical approach, the Social approach or the Human Rights approach?
21. Which approach to disability is used in the #CRPD: the Charity, Medical, Social or Human Rights approach?
22. Which approach to disability is used in your country's OFFICIAL disability policy -- the Charity, Medical, Social or Human Rights approach?
23: YOUR VIEW: Do you think most members of your country's legislative assemblies (e.g. Parliament, Congress, Senate) agree with the approach to disability used in your country's OFFICIAL disability policy?
24. What does 'intersectionality' mean?
25. Who were the people who first articulated the concept of intersectionality?
- Gay men
- Black women
- Disabled children
- Elderly prisoners
- Gay men
- Black women
- Disabled children
- Elderly prisoners
26. What is the #DisabilityDayOfMourning?
27. YOUR VIEW: Name someone from your country who you'd like to remember on the #DisabilityDayOfMourning.
28. In the domain of disability activism, who are Not Dead Yet, and what do they stand for?
29. What is meant by person-first and identity-first language in respect of disability?
30. YOUR VIEW: Which do you prefer, person-first or identity-first language, or don't you mind either way?
