CHARTER ON INCLUSION

CHARTER ON INCLUSION OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES


At the United Nations Humanitarian Summit in Instanbul, Turkey held on the 23rd – 24th May, 2016, a new charter or document was endorsed to significantly improve the living conditions of Persons With Disabilities during emergencies.

The charter urges the government representatives as well as leaders of non-governmental organizations and funding bodies to ensure that their future humanitarian actions will be inclusive of People With Disabilities.

Here in Nigeria, Persons Living With Disabilities don’t enjoy inclusion at all levels which is an abuse of Human Rights.

As Human Right is concerned, the rights do not need to be given to you and cannot be taken away from you. No one can tell you that you do not have these rights. It means that every person in the world has universal rights to enjoy dignity, respect, freedoms and opportunities without discrimination as it belongs to everyone regardless of differences.

Human Rights are interconnected and cannot be separated.

There are many different approaches of disability including traditional, charity-based, medical, religious, political, social and human rights-based.

The social model of disability states that disability can be addressed by removing attitudinal and environmental barriers created by society that prevents Persons With Disabilities from enjoying Human Rights.

The Universal Human Rights Declaration set out rights for all people, but following conventions for women, children and indigenous peoples, Persons With Disabilities wanted a convention setting out their rights, more specifically too.

In the past, Persons With Disabilities were left out of the development of Human Rights agreements. Prevailing medical and charity models meant that many decisions about Persons With Disabilities were made by professionals or charities.

Persons With Disabilities Global slogan of “Nothing About Us, Without Us”, is a unifying call for inclusion of Persons With Disabilities.

Government should take all appropriate measures to ensure that Persons With Disabilities can exercise the right to freedom of expression and opinion, including the freedom to seek, receive and impart information and ideas on a equal basis with others and through all forms of communication of their choice, accepting and facilitating the use of Sign Language, Braille, augmentative and alternative communication of their choice in official interactions as “LANGUAGE” comprises of spoken and signed languages and other forms of non-spoken languages.

Government should 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 Persons With Disabilities to cultural materials.

Persons With Disabilities should be entitled, on an equal basis with others, to recognition and support of their specific cultural and linguistic identity, including Sign Language and Deaf Culture.

This should serve as a reminder to the Governments at State and Federal levels to sign Disability Bills into Law as it’s the tool to enforce Persons With Disabilities Human Rights.



Adeosun Olufemi Ebenezer (a.k.a F.F.F)
Secretary General, Ogun State Association of the Deaf
Co-Founder, Uplifting Empowerment Foundation for the Deaf Youth
08099511080 (sms/whatsapp only)
olufemia28@gmail.com
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