Rights Of Disabled Persons Research Articles

Factors Affecting Social Adjustment of The Persons with Disabilities in Rural Punjab

Persons with disabilities are the marginalized persons in the community and facing different community related issues in Punjab province of Pakistan. In Pakistan, living standard of rural community is meager and there is strong association between disability and poverty. A quantitative study was conducted on disabled persons living in rural areas of Punjab. A proportionate sample of 400 respondents was collected from three main districts of Punjab i.e., Faisalabad, Multan and Rawalpindi from November 2016 to June 2017. Level of social adjustment was measured by using a compound variable consisting of statements related to daily activities of these persons. Univariate and bivariate testing were used for data analysis. In this study, majority of the respondents thought that emotional support by non-disabled persons, family support for daily activities, community support for social wellbeing and health structure support to be a productive part of society were important factors of social adjustment for disabled persons living in rural community. Regarding socio-economic background as a whole, it was observed that majorities of the respondents were male by gender from lower class with secondary and higher secondary school education but dependent on others to fulfil their financial requirements. Regarding overall social adjustment, majority of disabled persons stated to have low level of social adjustment even with provision of both more and less health structure support, greater community support, more and less family support and greater emotional support. On the contrary, few respondents were enjoying high level of social adjustment. To provide education and increased level of awareness regarding needs of disabled persons is recommended for the non-disabled persons of the community. Disabled persons should be provided with trainings and some professional skills to live an independent life in the community. Government should implement international anti-discriminatory law to protect the rights of disabled persons.

Rights of disabled persons with disabilities act 2016-a socio-legal study

Rights of disabled persons with disabilities act 2016-a socio-legal study

La protección jurídica del pasajero con necesidades especiales en el transporte aéreo

Regulation (EC) No 1107/2006, rights of disabled persons and persons with reduced mobility when travelling by air establishes a protective regime that aims to guarantee the effective right to make the contracted air trip. A double objective is intended: to protect these people from discrimination and to ensure that they receive assistance, establishing obligations for the managing entities of the airport, the air transport entrepreneur and tour operators. To this end, as a basic rule, it is forbidden to deny them boarding on the grounds of disability or reduced mobility (with the justified exceptions contemplated by the rule itself); In addition, an obligation of comprehensive assistance is established (from access to the airport of origin to departure, in flight and even in transit between flights at the airport), which must be provided at no additional cost to these passengers. This paper analyzes the positive and negative aspects of this rule, as well as the interpretation and application that since its entry into force has been made of it by the courts and by the institutions of the European Union.

Towards a Universal Design approach for Public Schools design. “The case study of Al-Orouba Schools Complex in Aswan City”

In recent years, the Egyptian state has paid special attention to education and establish schools and the direction of special-needs integration into schools and society, as 2018was declared as the year of disabled persons, based on that; a law of the rights of disabled persons was enacted in early 2018, thereby preparing the educational facilities to receive all users and provide them various services. And given the obstacles and problems the users of public schools suffer from, it is important to integrate all different groups in schools to make the school community accept all kinds of disabilities such as (physical, psychological, and mental) and to strengthen self-concept in addition to human, legal , educational, and economical considerations. Welfare and attention should also be provided so they can spend educational and entertaining time without depending on others or the need of a private companion so that they can’t feel different from other students and therefor moving easily and freely in complete independence without any physical obstacles in the internal environment of school. And that’s what the universal design seeks throughout creating universally designed products that can be accessed by persons who have a wide range of capacities, disabilities and other characteristics, and the outreach to necessary information effectively regardless the circumstances surrounding or the sensory capacities of the user. Moreover, make the products more usable for all users, not only the disabled persons.

Rights of disabled persons in India

Rights of disabled persons in India

Perceptions of the rights and capabilities of people with intellectual disability in the United States.

The United States has yet to ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The extent of public support in the United States for the rights of persons with intellectual disability is not known. Online public opinion polls were conducted nationally and in eight selected cities in 2017 and repeated in 2018 with 26,876 respondents in total. Support for rights was high: notably in accessing healthcare, schooling, playing sports and getting married. However, less support was evident for the rights of people who were perceived as less capable. Respondents with prior frequent personal contact and who had an engagement with Special Olympics were those most likely to support the rights and capabilities of persons with intellectual disability. Public support for the ratification of the UN Convention seems likely. Further longitudinal research could identify successful strategies for implementing the rights of disabled persons locally and nationally.

The Jordanian Legal Protection of Disabled Persons in Accordance to International Human Rights Treaties

This study aims at analyzing the legal system for protection of individuals with disabilities in Jordan, especially after the ratification of the 2007 Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities by Jordan. Then, the Jordanian Kingdom presented three-step measures to guarantee the rights of disabled persons. First, it introduced specific laws into the national legal corpus. Secondly, it made up a three-year strategy to enhance the protection of this particular panel of the population. Thirdly, a special committee was established whose duty is to assess the adequacy of national laws to the International treaties.

A Disability Rights Approach to Climate Governance

Despite international recognition of the greater vulnerability of persons with disabilities to climate change, disability issues have received little attention from practitioners, policy makers, and scholars in this field. As countries move forward with measures to combat climate change and adapt to its impacts, it is critical to understand how these efforts can be designed and implemented in ways that can respect, protect, and fulfill the human rights of disabled persons. Drawing on the human rights model of disability enshrined in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, we set out a disability rights approach to climate governance that identifies the differential impacts of climate change for disabled persons and outlines the principles, obligations, and standards for designing and adopting accessible climate mitigation and adaptation policies and programs. On the whole, we argue that States should identify and pursue synergies between the realization of disability rights and the pursuit of initiatives to decarbonize their economies as well as prepare their societies against future climate impacts. In addition to fulfilling the rights of persons with disabilities and fostering a more inclusive world, disability- inclusive climate solutions can have resonant outcomes that can enable a greater share of the population to contribute to the emergence of carbon neutrality and enhance the climate resilience of society as whole.

Introduction: Communication Rights in the Digital Age

Introduction: Communication Rights in the Digital Age

The socio-cultural challenges to maternal and neonatal care: The views of women with disabilities receiving maternity care in the Chereponi district of the Northern Ghana

Persons with disabilities form a significant proportion of the global population, majority of which are women. The United Nations Convention guarantees persons with disabilities equal rights to reproduction and healthcare access. Similarly, the Sustainable Development Goal 3 targets improvement of the health and well-being of individuals including persons with disabilities. However, women with disabilities have not been given close attention, particularly in developing countries. This study explored the challenges faced by women with disabilities vis-a-vis their non-disabled counterparts within the same period and in the same study setting. A qualitative design was adopted to conduct in-depth interviews involving 20 disabled women and 20 non-disabled women. The study compared the challenges faced by these two categories of women in accessing maternal and child healthcare services in the Chereponi District of the Northern Region of Ghana. Generally, women with disabilities were socially excluded within the family, society and in the health facilities based on their conditions. The disabled women encountered more challenges such as stigmatisation, discrimination, oppression and verbal abuse that translated into poor maternal clinic attendance. The socio-cultural beliefs and perceptions about disability influenced how the public and healthcare professionals related with the disabled women and resulted in poor maternity care. The implementation of the Disability Act needs to be strengthened by intensifying the disability issues in health training and practice to equip professionals with skills and ethics in handling disabled persons as well as the right of the disabled. Healthcare promotion should be channelled towards disabusing the public mind about beliefs and perceptions associated with disability and reproduction. The rights of disabled persons should be respected in the provision of public transport and healthcare services. Facility-based counselling and community health education should critically examine women with disabilities to meet their needs and integrate them into the mainstream society through appropriate information designs.

ParticipaTIC: Lessons from developing accessible on-line training for disabled people’s leaders

Abstract The ParticipaTIC Erasmus+ project led by the EHESP School of Public Health in partnership with disability organizations and associations from France, Belgium, Switzerland, and Romania has co-designed an accessible digital platform. In line with the 2010-2020 European strategy and the United Nations Convention on the rights of disabled persons we aim to strengthen the competences of the leaders of disabled persons’ organizations to defend the rights of disabled people, and to develop participation. ParticipaTIC offers 4 modules on ‘What is disability?’, ‘Competencies for disability organization leaders’, ‘the United Nations Convention’ and ‘How to carry out a local accessibility analysis’. Different contrasts, font size, speech synthesis, captioned videos and content summaries in ‘Easy to read and understand’ French are available together with a cloned platform in Romanian and English. Two guides have also been produced on 1) on-line accessibility and 2) co-constructing an on-line accessible platform. Beyond the deliverables, adapting on-line instruction to the different capacities of people with disabilities raises many issues. New competencies for accessible design are needed. Tradeoffs between content, pedagogical style and accessibility seem inevitable. On-line activities need adaptations but these may be complex and costly. Taken-for-granted assumptions about what is attractive, and well-designed are called into question when designing for people with visual, auditory, and intellectual impairments. Lessons from ParticipaTIC are remarkably similar to those of participatory thinking design: advance in small steps, evaluating successive design phases with people with disabilities for fitness of purpose. Ultimately trainers need to redesign themselves to take into account unsuspected worlds, those of our fellow citizens with different capacities. Important lessons beyond the world of on-line instruction for the building of a truly inclusive society have emerged.

Protection of Children with Disabilities. Correlation of the UN Convention on the Children’s Rights and the UN Convention on the Rights of Disabled Persons

The UN Convention on child’s rights is not a sole international and legal treaty aimed at enhancing the extent of protection of children at both the international and domestic levels. In particular, the UN Convention on the rights of disabled persons contains prescriptions that are designed to ensure needs of children with disabilities, including the equality of opportunities in the area of education. The elimination of diversified discrimination of children with disabilities in accordance to this Convention should, inter alia, be performed through their dedicated integration into society and school. Whether an exclusively school education contributes to achieving such goal or whether other forms are acceptable too — this is a question requiring qualified discussion. The Convention on the rights of disabled persons permits various options of ensuring full-fledged development of the personality of a child with disabilities within the limits of individual states. It is being discussed in the article whether the provisions of the Convention are compulsory for the member states in each specific case. Besides, the correlation of the Convention on the rights of children and Convention on the rights of disabled persons is under review since it is the only way to identify the specific scope of the guarantees of children’s rights stipulated by the Convention. Regardless the fact that both international and legal treaties are aimed at ensuring the fullest protection of children, there are certain subtle differences in respect of the ways of their enforcement which might eventually appear to be material. The criteria for comparison are, for instance, enforceability of conventional provisions as well as their direct effect in domestic law and order. For Germany, for instance, the practice of the Federal Constitutional Court that repeatedly voiced about interpretation of the Basic Law of Germany in the light of international treaties on human rights.

The Positive Perception of Disability As a Human Rights Principle and the Reality of Prenatal Testing

In this article we deal with the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities which as a rather new and important human rights instrument has introduced some innovative elements into the system of international human rights protection. The CRPD is intended to give full effect to rights of disabled persons by including them into society and influencing their positive perception by society. However, the issue of prenatal screening and selective abortion shows that there is a rather sharp contrast between the Convention's new approach and social reality. In the last part of the article we focus on a judgment of the French Council of State which highlights some contradictions and paradoxes characterizing the protection of persons with disabilities.

Liability Aspects, Legal Effects and Review of the Regulation 1107/2006 (Disabled Persons and Persons With Reduced Mobility When Travelling by Air)

The purpose of the study is to present content, effects and shortcomings of the Regulation 1107/2006 (“the Regulation”) concerning the rights of disabled persons and persons with reduced mobility when travelling by air. Indeterminacy of the term ‘PRM’ and inadequate information to carriers and airport operators about the need for assistance to PRMs hinders the adequate implementation of the Regulation. Sui generis principle of solidarity implies that a charge for assistance to PRMs is levied on each carrier using an airport, proportionate to the number of passengers it carries to or from the airport, and this enables a high level of protection of PRMs. As a counter-balance to the principle of solidarity, a principle of cost efficiency has been incorporated which puts an airport operator or the airport operator's subcontractor under the obligation to keep PRM charges commensurate to PRM ground handling charges. In addition to implementation of the solidarity principle, the high level of protection of PRMs is also ensured by the obligation to adopt quality standards for ground handling of PRMs at all airports servicing more than 150,000 passengers, as well as both airport operators and carriers being obliged to train their staff how to provide the appropriate assistance. The absence of clarity on the obligations of airport operators and carriers has resulted in inconsistency in the regime of responsibility for damage to wheelchairs or mobility equipment and other assistive devices.

Політика інклюзивності в католицьких університетах світу

This paper presents findings of the global survey conducted by the Research Centre of the Lille Catholic University regarding issues of access of students with disabilities to the higher education and support available for those students in 103 Catholic universities around the world. Those participating universities compose half of membership of the International Federation of Catholic Universities. Evaluation of legislation concerning policies on rights of disabled persons for higher education was carried out as well. Various aspects of the disabled students support were explored such as: academic support (adaptations and modifications of the curriculum and/or course teaching materials available in the required format; adapted teaching strategies and help from personal tutors etc.), financial aid (level of life autonomy depending on the availability of funding specifically set to cover http://aqce.com.ua/ Актуальні питання корекційної освіти 75 needs of the disabled students and possibly provided by the government and/or by the university), socio-cultural support (how easily the campus environment meets disabled students request for integration in students life and creating friendship realationships), human aid (support by volunteers and/or hired persons in everyday life).

PROTECTION OF THE RIGHTS OF DISABLED PERSONS AS VICTIMS OF CRIME IN CRIMINAL PROCEDURE

The aim of the research is to conduct comparative analysis to the Criminal Procedure Laws of the Republic of Lithuania, of the Republic of Latvia and the Ukraine on the rights of protection of disabled persons who became victims of criminal acts (crimes and misdemeanours). Some group of persons are more attractive target for criminals due to their physical or/and mental weakness. Disability is the one of main factors, that directly has impact on them, when accessing to justice - especially during pre-trial investigation stage of criminal procedure. The authors of the research paper are going to focus on disabled persons’ access to justice particularly during interview. The above mentioned issue points out the main objectives of the research:To describe disabled persons.To analyse international and national laws on protection of the rights of disabled persons as victims of criminal acts in criminal procedure.To identify the issues related to disabled persons’ access to justice, especially in criminal procedures.To propose suggestions, which could improve protection of the rights of disabled persons in criminal procedures.

Проявления интеллектуальной дифференциации в уровне и структуре гражданской идентичности студентов столичного и провинциального вузов

Introduction. This paper presents a comparative analysis of intellectual development and civil identity. Students studying at different socio-cultural environments demonstrate intellectual variability in relation to different levels of civil identity. The study provides new data on the relationship among the level of acceptance, personal traits characterizing social capital, and the structure and level of intelligence in individuals with different socio-cultural conditions.
 Methods. The level of intelligence was measured using the Test of Adults’ Mental Development (TAMD), which relied on the concept of a socio-psychological standard (SPS). The Diagnosis of Civil Identity projective technique was employed for studying civil identity. The technique included the following scales: (a) attitude towards the rights of ethnic minorities; (b) attitude towards the rights of sexual minorities; (c) attitude towards liberal values; (d) attitude towards political rights; (e) attitude towards the rights of the underprivileged; (f) attitude towards the rights of disabled persons; (g) attitude towards Russia in terms of patriotism (citizens’ attitude towards the state they live in).
 Results. A higher level of intellectual development determined students’ reflexive and critical attitude towards events in the country. Students with a high level of intellectual development (a) appreciated personal responsibility and freedom, (b) had a positive attitude towards the rights of ethnic minorities and legal protection of honor and dignity, and (c) evaluated the world on the basis of information from different sources.
 Discussion. In Moscow social medium intelligence contributes to students’ positive attitude towards liberal values and enhances their participation in democratic transformations in Russia. A higher level of intellectual development determines students’ recognition of the rights of national and ethnic minorities in a regional social medium.

تصور معذوریت قرآن وسنت کی روشنی میں

The action code of Islam is impartial and strong. All human beings, disabled and abled have the right of gaining justice and bound to giving justice. Because of disableness impartial behavior is against the Islamic justice code. The “good behavior” with disabled persons is the basic law of disableness in Islam. The “good behavior” with disabled persons in Islam is not the result of mercy and pity but is the result of that right of taking equal to the life of common people which is due to the nation and community. Hence the rights of disabled persons are the result of those requirements which are created due to disableness. The meaning which we take conventional is “complete worthlessness” but it means in Islam weak and feeble. That is to say disable person is able to work but he has less ability. Or he has no ability to do one job but has the ability of high rank to do other jobs.The Holy Prophet (Peace be upon him) introduced first time this principle of disableness. The Arabs mean the word “disableness” complete uselessness. But the Holy Quran exempted the persons from Jehad not taking part in Tabuk battle because of disableness giving them the name of feebles. Islam does not appeal for mercy with disabled persons but advised to behave well with them and condemns also the injustice of society with them. Islam orders to perform one’s duties to others. Islam not only stresses on the performance of duties but also gives instructions in this connection.

THE NEED FOR RESEARCH ON PUBLIC SUBJECTIVE RIGHTSOF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIESFROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF POLISH ADMINISTRATIVE LAW

When dealing with citizens, public administration has numerous opportunities for abuse of its privileged position. The study of public subjective rights of disabled persons in public law is important because the relation under administrative law is not an equal relation. The state is always the stronger party. When a party to this relation is a person with a dysfunction of the body, a situation is created which is highly unfavourable for this person because of the natural tendency of the state system (including public authorities) to use its privileged position. This can result in actual discrimination of persons with disabilities. The purpose of the law is the common good and welfare of individual persons. Respecting the welfare of persons with disabilities in the public law guarantees the realization of the common good. One can not create the law while ignoring the rules governing human life. As Petrażycki wrote, “the highest good to which we should strive in policy in general and legal policy in particular – is the moral development of man and the rule of highest rational ethics among human beings, namely, the ideal of love” (Petrażycki, 1968, translation mine).

Passenger with Reduced Mobility (PRM) - Regulation 1107/2006 - Airport Duties - Limits to Its Adequate Implementation

The purpose of the study is to present contents, effects and shortcomings of the Regulation 1107/2006 concerning the rights of disabled persons and persons with reduced mobility when travelling by air. Indeterminacy of the notion PRM and inadequate information of carriers and transmission of the information to airport operators of the need for assistance to PRMs limit the adequate implementation of the Regulation 1107/2006. Sui generis principle of solidarity implies that a charge of assistance to PRMs is levied on each carrier using an airport, proportionate to the number of passengers it carries to or from the airport, what enables a high level of protection of PRMs. As a counter-balance to the principle of solidarity, a principle of cost efficiency has been incorporated which puts an airport operator or the airport operator's subcontractor under the obligation to have PRM charges commensurate to PRM ground handling charges. In addition to implementation of the solidarity principle, the high level of protection of passengers with reduced mobility is also ensured by the obligation to adopt Quality standards for ground handling of PRMs at all airports having more than 150.000 passengers, as well as the obligation of both airport operators and carriers to train their staff how to provide assistance to PRMs. Precisely differentiated obligations of airport operators and carriers have not resulted in the same regime of responsibility for the damage on wheelchairs or mobility equipment or other assistive devices. Full implementation of the Regulation 1107/2006 will mainly depend on the executive bodies being authorized for monitoring the Regulation 1007/2006 has been applied and passengers with reduced mobility informed about their rights.