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UN Disability Convention takes centre stage

Oct 07, 2009 News

As of Monday last representatives of disabled people’s organisations from Regions Two, Four, Six, Seven, Nine and Ten began a four-day workshop on the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
The venue was the CIDA Conference Centre, Main and New Market Streets, Georgetown.
This stems from the belief that people with disabilities remain amongst the most marginalised in Guyana.
Some say that they are still viewed as charity cases and objects of welfare or medical treatment rather than holders of rights despite Guyana being a signatory to international human rights frameworks such as the new UN Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities aimed at eliminating discrimination against disabled people.
The workshop is a joint effort between the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the National Commission on Disability (NCD), and the Guyana Council of Organisations for Persons with Disabilities and the Guyana Community Based Rehabilitation Programme (CBR). The Train the trainers’ activity is being done to prepare participants to teach members of their respective organisations how to explain the various articles contained in the UN Convention.
The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is the response of the international community to the long history of discrimination, exclusion and dehumanisation of persons with disabilities.
The Convention covers many areas where persons with disabilities have been discriminated against including access to justice; participation in political and public life; education; employment; freedom from torture; exploitation and violence, as well as freedom of movement.
It estimated that more than 650 million people around the world live with disabilities.
An estimated 20 per cent of the world’s poorest people are those with disabilities; 90 per cent of children with disabilities in developing countries do not attend school; an estimated 30 per cent of the world’s street children live with disabilities; and the literacy rate for adults with disabilities is as low as three percent.

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