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The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) is increasingly used to civilize grassroots disabled persons' organizations (DPOs) around the world. The international disability rights movement actively promotes the CRPD's key norm that disabled persons mobilize in support of their rights under the Convention. The unintended consequence of these activities, however, is that local groups focused on social support and service provision, rather than disability-rights advocacy, are targeted for change. While the resources provided by international actors to grassroots organizations provide new opportunities, they also create barriers to local groups' ability to promote full civic participation of their members in the local community. Through a detailed account of grassroots DPOs in Nicaragua, Civilizing Disability Society demonstrates how local organizations navigate pressures from abroad as they attempt to concretely address the health, education and economic needs of their members at home.

People with disabilities --- Civil society --- Civil society. --- Disability law --- Cripples --- Disabled --- Disabled people --- Disabled persons --- Handicapped --- Handicapped people --- Individuals with disabilities --- People with physical disabilities --- Persons with disabilities --- Physically challenged people --- Physically disabled people --- Physically handicapped --- Persons --- Disabilities --- Sociology of disability --- Social contract --- Legal status, laws. etc. --- Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Optional Protocol --- Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities --- Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its Optional Protocol --- CRPD --- Shōgai no aru hito no kenri ni kansuru jōyaku to sono sentaku giteisho --- Konvensi PBB Mengenai Hak-Hak Orang Dengan Disabilitas --- UN CRPD --- UNCRPD --- United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Optional Protocol --- Convención sobre los Derechos de las Personas con Discapacidad --- Convención sobre los Derechos de las Personas con Discapacidad y su Protocolo Facultativo --- Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities --- Convention relative aux droits des personnes handicapées et Protocole facultatif --- Convenção Internacional sobre os Direitos das Pessoas com Deficiência e seu Protocolo Facultativo --- Convenção sobre os Direitos das Pessoas com Deficiência e seu Protocolo Facultativo --- Convenção sobre os Direitos das Pessoas com Deficiência