Ulaanbaatar
Bill on rights for people with disabilities submitted
PoliticsUlaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ The Minister of Population Development and Social Welfare S.Erdene MP Friday submitted to parliament a draft law on protecting rights of people with disabilities.
The draft reflects measures for improving all conditions for the disabled so that they have the power resolved urgent problems they face in public transportation, roads designs, apartments, and public organizations.
In 2008, Mongolian parliament ratified the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which was approved at the 61st session of the UN General Assembly in 2006. In addition, Mongolia accepted last year the Incheon Strategy to “Make the Right Real” for Persons with Disabilities in Asia and the Pacific to be realized by governments of the ESCAP between 2013 and 2022.
With an aim to fulfill goals of these documents, the government has worked out the bill on rights for people with disabilities in accordance with a plan of realizing the 2012-2016 action programme and the UN Convention on Rights for Persons with Disabilities. The current law on the social welfare for the disabled mostly says about state assistance and support, medical and social welfare services, that is why the bill aims to change this tendency. Clauses have been put into the bill based on key regulations of the UN Convention in order to protect the disabled from discrimination, to ban this discrimination, and to ensure their right to participate in social life as others.
