Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities – Part 3
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Continuing with UN Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities, in today’s blog, I have discussed Articles 6,7,10, 11 and 12.
Article 6 – Women with disabilities
– Women and girls with disabilities are subject to multiple discrimination, hence measures need to be taken to ensure full and equal enjoyment by them of all human rights and fundamental freedoms.
– All appropriate measures should be taken to ensure full development, advancement & empowerment of women, for the purpose of guaranteeing them exercise and enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms set out in the present Convention.
Article 7 – Children with disabilities
– All necessary measures to be taken for ensuring full enjoyment by children with disabilities of all human rights and fundamental freedoms on an equal basis with other children.
– The best interests of the children shall be the primary consideration while taking any action concerning children with disabilities. .
– To ensure that children with disabilities have the right to express their views freely on all matters affecting them and that their views are given due weight in accordance with their age and maturity, on an equal basis with other children, and to be provided with disability and age-appropriate assistance to realize that right.
Article 10 – Right to life
To reaffirm that every human being has inherent right to life and to take all necessary measures to ensure its effective enjoyment by persons with disabilities on an equal basis with others.
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Article 11 – Situations of risk and humanitarian emergencies
In accordance with their obligations under international law, including international humanitarian law & international human rights law, the States Parties shall take all necessary measures to ensure the protection and safety of persons with disabilities in situations of risk, including situations of armed conflict, humanitarian emergencies and the occurence of natural disasters.
Article 12 – Equal recognition before the law
– To reaffirm that persons with disabilities have the right to recognition everywhere as persons before the law.
– To recognize that persons with disabilities enjoy legal capacity on an equal basis with others in all aspects of life.
– To take appropriate measures to provide access by persons with disabilities to the support they may require in exercising their legal capacity.
– To ensure that all measures that relate to the exercise of legal capacity provide for appropriate and effective safeguards to prevent abuse in accordance with international human rights law. Such safeguards shall ensure that measures relating to the exercise of legal capacity respect the rights, will and preferences of the person, are free of conflict of interest and undue influence, are proportional and tailored to the person’s circumstances, apply for the shortest time possible and are subject to regular review by a competent, independent and impartial authority or judicial body. The safeguards shall be proportional to the degree to which such measures affect the person’s rights and interests.
– Subject to the provisions of this article, all appropriate and effective measures should be taken to ensure equal right of persons with disabilities to own or inherit property, to control their own financial affairs and to have equal access to bank loans, mortgages and other forms of financial credit, and shall ensure that persons with disabilities are not arbitrarily deprived of their property.
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Author Shivani Lohia
Shivani Lohia is a Chartered Accountant by profession and mother to 8 years old child on the autism spectrum. The cause of autism awareness is very close to her heart and she strongly believes in equal education for all & strongly advocates inclusion. She has been homeschooling her son since he was 5 years old.
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2 replies on “Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities – Part 3”
Schools usually denied to give admission to ASD kid in inclusive schools or later expelled the kid with Sp. need.
Unfortunately, yes!