Torsten Scholz 
Inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities in the workplace in light of the UN Convention on Disability Rights 
The current employment situation in workshops for people with disabilities (WfbM) and an outlook for the future

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2012 in the subject Politics – Topic: International Organisations, University of Kassel, language: English, abstract: Workshops for people with disabilities (Wfb M) are still one of the best-established and best-known institutions in Germany in the field of assistance for people with disabilities, especially for people with mental impairments.

The institution of the workshop is considered to be very typical for the German disability assistance, because it is a strongly established, institutionalized system, which is less common in other countries and thus exemplary for the German assistance landscape, which is still very much dominated by special institutions with a segregating, ‘protective’ character.

However, against the background of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, this type of institution may be called into question in the medium term. The aim of this paper will therefore be to clarify what workshops actually are, how they function, how this is compatible with current concepts of inclusion of disabled people and with the UN Convention, and what problems and contradictions may arise in the near future.