Day: August 16, 2023

Hello friends,
Continuing with my series on ‘Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities’, presenting last part of this series where I have briefly discussed Articles 28, 29 and 30 of CRPD.

Article 28
Adequate standard of living and social protection

– To recognize the right of PwD to an adequate standard of living for themselves and their families, including adequate food, clothing and housing, and to the continuous improvement of living conditions
– To recognize the right of PwD to social protection and to the enjoyment of that right without discrimination on the basis of disability, and shall take appropriate steps to safeguard and promote the realization of this right, including measures:
a) To ensure equal access by PwD to clean water services, and to ensure access to appropriate and affordable services, devices and other assistance for disability-related needs;
b) To ensure access by PwD, in particular women and girls with disabilities and older persons with disabilities, to social protection programmes and poverty reduction programmes;
c) To ensure access by PwD and their families living in situations of poverty to assistance from the State with disability-related expenses, including adequate training, counselling, financial assistance and respite care;
d) To ensure access by PwD to public housing programmes;
e) To ensure equal access by PwD to retirement benefits and programmes

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Article 28
Adequate standard of living and social protection

Article 29
Participation in political and public life

Article 30
Participation in cultural life, recreation, leisure & sport


Article 29
Participation in political and public life
●To guarantee to PwD political rights and the opportunity to enjoy them on an equal basis with others, and undertake:
a) To ensure that PwD can effectively and fully participate in political and public life on an equal basis with others, directly or through freely chosen representatives, including the right and opportunity for PwD to vote and be elected, inter alia, by:
i. Ensuring that voting procedures, facilities and materials are appropriate, accessible and easy to understand and use;
ii. Protecting the right of PwD to vote by secret ballot in elections and public referendums without intimidation, and to stand for elections, to effectively hold office and perform all public functions at all levels of government, facilitating the use of assistive and new technologies where appropriate;
iii. Guaranteeing the free expression of the will of PwD as electors and to this end, where necessary, at their request, allowing assistance in voting by a person of their own choice;
b) To promote actively an environment in which PwD can effectively and fully participate in the conduct of public affairs, without discrimination and on an equal basis with others, and encourage their participation in public affairs, including:
i. Participation in non-governmental organizations and associations concerned with the public and political life of the country, and in the activities and administration of political parties;
ii. Forming and joining organizations of PwD to represent PwD at international, national, regional and local levels.

Article 30
Participation in cultural life, recreation, leisure and sport
– To recognize the right of PwD to take part on an equal basis with others in cultural life, and shall take all appropriate measures to ensure that PwD:
a) Enjoy access to cultural materials in accessible formats;
b) Enjoy access to television programmes, films, theatre and other cultural activities, in accessible formats;
c) Enjoy access to places for cultural performances or services, such as theatres, museums, cinemas, libraries and tourism services, and, as far as possible, enjoy access to monuments and sites of national cultural importance.
– To take appropriate measures to enable PwD to have the opportunity to develop and utilize their creative, artistic and intellectual potential, not only for their own benefit, but also for the enrichment of society.
– To take all appropriate steps, in accordance with international law, to ensure that laws protecting intellectual property rights do not constitute an unreasonable or discriminatory barrier to access by PwD to cultural materials.
4. PwD shall be entitled, on an equal basis with others, to recognition and support of their specific cultural and linguistic identity, including sign languages and deaf culture.
5. With a view to enabling PwD to participate on an equal basis with others in recreational, leisure and sporting activities, take appropriate measures:
a) To encourage and promote the participation, to the fullest extent possible, of PwD in mainstream sporting activities at all levels;
b) To ensure that PwD have an opportunity to organize, develop and participate in disability-specific sporting and recreational activities and, to this end, encourage the provision, on an equal basis with others, of appropriate instruction, training and resources;
c) To ensure that PwD have access to sporting, recreational and tourism venues;
d) To ensure that children with disabilities have equal access with other children to participation in play, recreation and leisure and sporting activities, including those activities in the school system;
e) To ensure that PwD have access to services from those involved in the organization of recreational, tourism, leisure and sporting activities.
In all the seven parts of this series, I have discussed important Articles of ‘Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities’. Hope you found all the blogs useful. Feel free to share your thoughts on WhatsApp number +919910353219 or email at contact@autismfinancialplanning.com


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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