Sociological monitoring of the rights of the disabled according to the UN convention on the rights of persons with disabilities

The ratification of the United Nations (UN) Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (the Convention) by the Russian Federation requires the improvement of approaches to solving the problem of realization of this social group’s rights. This paper presents some aspects of the sociological component of the monitoring of keeping the rights of the disabled, which aims to identify the changes associated with various aspects of the Convention implementation, prevention of negative trends and short-term forecasting of social processes and problems. Special attention was paid to the concept of sociological monitoring, its significance, object, subject, aim, objectives, special features of empirical indicators determination, and requirements to the respondent selection, as well as the questionnaire survey to collect the primary sociological information.

United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the rights ofpeople with disabilities, public opinion poll, disabled, sociological monitoring