INTRODUCTION
I. BASIC LEGAL CONCEPTS
A. Addressing the question
B. International human rights standards
C. Other conventions of universal scope
D. Regional instruments
E. Standards of international humanitarian law
F. Non-conventional provisions
G. Summary and assessment
H. Terminology, definition and statistics
II. FACTORS CAUSING DISABILITY
A. Multiple causes
B. Violations of human rights and of humanitarian law as factors caus- ing disability
C. Suffering inflicted on non-combatants in situations of armed conflict or civil strife
D. Insufficient care and cruelty towards children and women
E. Specific problems of some other vulnerable groups
F. Underdevelopment and its various manifestations considered as a violation of human rights 
G. Apartheid
H. Problems related to some deliberately inflicted forms of punishment and other treatment
I. Scientific experiments
III. PREJUDICES AND DISCRIMINATION AGAINST DISABLED PERSONS: AREAS, FORM AND SCOPE
A. Introduction
B. Areas and scope of discrimination
C. Cultural barriers
D. Particularly vulnerable situation of the mentally ill
E. Institutionalization