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with Disabilities Shown at: European PARLIAMENT Brussels, December 1-5 World Bank European Office, ongoing
CBM is an International Christian development organisation, committed to improving the lives of persons with disabilities in the poorest countries of the world. This year CBM celebrates 100 years of commitment and expertise. Photo CBM/ Lohnes, graphic design plazier apart, responsible editor Catherine Naughton
The Convention recalls the principles proclaimed in the Charter of the United Nations which recognise the inherent dignity and worth and the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family as the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world (UN CRPD; 2008).
Photo: Malawi. CBM/ Malawi Council for the Handicapped
Freedom of expression
According to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UN CRPD), state governments shall recognise sign language as an official language in the Constitution and/or special legislation, ensure professional interpreter services and guarantee bilingual education to Deaf people. Solely this way the Deaf peoples Human Rights still so blatantly violated around the world - will be assured in the future.
World Federation of the Deaf Photos Sri Lanka CBM Thomas Lohnes
CBM staff are working with partners in disaster and emergency situations and to try to ensure persons with disabilities are provided with relief and protection on an equal basis with other people.
Photo. Niger CBM/ Carl Becker
Right to Healthcare
Persons with disabilities have the same right to quality basic healthcare as everyone else. However, this is often denied due to physically inaccessible or remote health centers and a lack of health workers with appropriate training for treating persons with disabilities. In addition, healthcare information is usually not adapted to the needs of persons with disabilities (EC Guidance Note on Disability and Development, 2004). Women and girls with disabilities belong to the groups that are most affected from lack of adequate healthcare (Groce 2000). Article 25 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with disabilities specifies the right to the same range, quality and standard of free or affordable health care available to others, including sexual and reproductive health, health-related rehabilitation and population based public health programmes. Photos CBM/ Phil Lam
I am here too
Children with Disabilities are at greater risk of exclusion from school, of dying before the age of five, of being physically or sexually abused than their non-disabled peers.
The Convention on the Rights of the Child outlined that children with Disabilities have the same rights as any other children. The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, in Article 7, reinforces this, and clearly outlines the rights of children with disabilities to express their views freely on all matters that concern them.
Our ability to deal with children with disabilities is a yardstick of our ability to deal with all children. Peter Ustinov, UN Ambassador, 1995
Photo CBM/Thomas Einberger
Right to Education
In its Education for All Global Monitoring Report, 2007, UNESCO estimated that of all school-age children worldwide, over a third was made up of children with Disabilities. Both the the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (Article 24) and the Convention on the Rights of the Child state explicitly that children with disabilities have a right to education, and that provisions should be made so that Persons with disabilities can access an inclusive, quality and free primary education and secondary education on an equal basis with others in the communities in which they live. These photos show an inclusive classroom in PNG where children with Disabilities are educated side-by-side with their non-disabled peers. In line with the UN CRPD, and with the support of Callen Services, a CBM partner, the government of PNG has made inclusive education part of the National Education Policy.
Social protection
The relationship between poverty and disability is commonly referred to as a vicious circle. It is a two way relationship disability adds to the risk of poverty and conditions of poverty increase the risk of disability (Elwan, 1999). The result of the cycle of poverty and disability is that people with disabilities are usually amongst the poorest of the poor (DFID (2000; p.2)) Article 28 of the CRPD recognizes the rights of person with disability to an adequate standard of living and social protection. Social protection is key to poverty reduction and ensuring equal opportunities. Photo: Tanzania, Marie Hatzoudis, CBM
Photos Kenya- income generation projects/ fashion show. CBM / Siegfried Herrmann Rwanda- basketball. CBM/ Keith Mc Allister
Multiple discrimination
Article 6 of the UN CRPD recognises that women and girls face multiple discrimination. It calls on States parties to ensure the full development advancement and empowerment of women. Despite their significant numbers, women and girls with disabilities, especially in the developing countries, remain hidden and silent, their concerns unknown and their rights unrecognized; Throughout the developing world, in urban and rural communities alike, they face triple discrimination - because of their disabilities, being female and poor; UNICEF has reported that women and children receive less than 20 percent of rehabilitation services Statement by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Disability on the occasion of International Womens Day, March 8, 2005 CBM Thomas Einberger /argum