Tag: Disability Rights
International Day of Persons with Disabilities
We believe that more can, and should, be done to remove physical barriers, but we also need to tackle the mental barriers against hiring PWDs.
December 3rd, 2014 | by The Independent
The International Day of Persons with Disabilities in 2014 will focus on the role of technology in three key...
UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities adopted
Addressing the event, Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam emphasized that persons with disabilities have their own value that we should respect. He called on the community to give a helping hand and protect the legitimate rights of the disabled.
Last update 09:27 | 04/12/2014
Addressing the event, Deputy Prime Minister...
Mandate Meets Strategy: AICHR’s TOR and the Incheon Strategy
This emerging consensus on protecting, promoting and fulfilling rights of persons with disabilities is further captured in Southeast Asia’s endorsement of the Asia Pacific’s Incheon Strategy to Make the Right Real.
Oleh: Kyle Lemargie
The terms of reference for the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) are undergoing a scheduled...
Promoting rights of people with disabilities in ASEAN
ASEAN needs to be consistent as a human rights friendly community, given its vision to be “a concert of Southeast Asian nations, bonded together in partnership in dynamic development and in a community of caring societies.”
Hafid Abbas, Jakarta | Opinion | Thu, December 10 2015, 4:33 PM
It is a...
ASEAN Enabling Masterplan 2025: Mainstreaming the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
The ASEAN Enabling Masterplan 2025 seeks to complement and concretise the ASEAN Community Vision 2025 in mainstreaming the rights of persons with disabilities across all three pillars of the ASEAN Community, and fosters Member States’ commitment towards an inclusive community. It is guided by the underlying principles that for...
House snubs disabled persons in bill drafting: Coalition
The National Coalition of People with Disabilities has called on the House of Representatives to revise the current draft of a bill on disabled persons before deliberations start in June, arguing that the bill limits disabled persons’ rights as citizens.
Haeril Halim, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | National | Mon,...
The Sexual Abuse of Deaf Women: a Human Rights Scandal
Imagine living in a home that is also, strangely, a foreign country, where you can neither fully understand what is going on, let alone be understood. Now imagine your life was like that 24 hours a day—every single day. This is the plight of women like Anica and Diane,*...
Educational inequality in Thailand: Time running out for promised junta reforms
As another school year comes to a close, Thailand seems no closer to solving the problems that have plagued the country’s education system for years. This is despite the ambitions of Prayuth Chan-ocha and the NCPO’s to implement reforms on all of the country’s social institutions.
By Saksith Saiyasombut &...
