El derecho humano a la educación de las personas con discapacidad: una mirada a sus instrumentos normativos internacionales y regionales: Documento de información

This text outlines the progress, obstacles, and challenges that countries in Latin America and the Caribbean face in ensuring the right to education for girls, boys, adolescents, young people, and adults with disabilities as part of inclusive educational settings.

It contains general data on people with disabilities and analyses some normative instruments pertinent to their right to education, contrasting these with the standards and concrete realities of the countries in the region.

Being an executive document, it outlines only some of the trends and attempts to characterize the nature and scope of inclusive education within the conceptual framework developed by the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, complemented by the general and final observations of the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. This information culminates with a list of relevant normative instruments.

In the last section, recommendations are added that States should consider to ensure the right to inclusive education, with an emphasis on disability, which, due to its characteristics, must have normative and public policy frameworks that are intersectoral and intersectional specifically addressing inclusion, based on human rights instruments, which should be implemented in consultation and with the participation of all educational actors, such as decision-makers and legal operators, teachers, students, caregivers, and parents.