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The Council to Protect the Rights of People with Disabilities

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Last month, the “Disabilities Act”(Bill 8/2010, hereafter referred to as “disAbility Bill”) got ratified by President Nasheed. This disAbility Bill was a direct result of ratifying the Convention on the Rights of Persons with a Disability or CRPD. One of the things that CRPD urge ratified countries is to pass legislature supporting rights of PWDs. It also made it compulsory for the state to form a “Committee on Rights of People with Disabilities”(CRPD: Article 34, Clause 1). So the disAbility Bill which got ratified on 9th July 2010 consisted a “Council to Protect the Rights of People with Disabilities”(<–Person first Language not used there!, hereafter referred as “the Council”) and has representations from;

  1. President’s candidate
  2. Ministry of Health and Family
  3. A Doctor from Maldives Medical Association
  4. A Psychiatrist
  5. A Non-governmental organization
  6. A Person with a disability
  7. A Parent of a PWD

Read more at Yafaau.info/blog

Questions to Min. Information re: CRPD

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Dear Minister Nasheed;

Now that Maldives have signed the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Maldives too agrees to do things to make everyone else aware that disabled people have the same rights as everyone else and to show them what disabled people can do.

In the CRPD convention, Article 8, on awareness says the countries should do this by;

They should do this by:

  • Having campaigns to change the way some people think about disabled people’s lives.
  • Showing everyone what jobs disabled people can do.
  • Teaching all children about equal rights for disabled people.
  • Getting the media to show disabled people properly.
  • Supporting more disability awareness work.

I’d like to ask you what your Minisitry is planning/doing to do to help the government ratify the CRPD? I would also like to know if there are any revisions/additions relating to CRPD on the reform process that is being done by the Ministry.

A copy of this question is posted on MVdisAbilty blog with links for further discussion and updates.

M.Yasiph
yasiph@gmail.com
+(960)7776688

Yasiph is father of a child with disabilities(Yafaau), President of CARE Parents’ Forum and he’s actively involved in forming a disability support group and is a strong supporter of RatifyNOW.org

This is a question sent to Min. of Information’s website, Hyphen blog and Minister Nasheed’s Blog via its feedback page in an effort to review CRPD status and let the relevant authorities know that there are concerned individuals about CRPD and tht it is not just another Convention that Maldives have signed and kept archived.