Mainstreaming disAbility in the development
It’s been couple of years since Maldives have been marking the International Day for Persons with disAbilities. As we mark yet another year for PWD’s there are lots of commitments yet to be looked upon. Mainstreaming disAbility has been there since the UN first started the UN Enable movement and Maldives has never touched on implementing it. Under this year’s main theme of IDPD 2011, “Together for a better world for all: Including persons with disAbilites in development”, are some sub-themes which are: 1....
read moreAslam Shakir calls upon the intn’l community to work with Maldives to implement programs promote the rights of Persons with disAbilities
9 September 2011 : – The Fourth Conference of the Parties for the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities was held at the United Nations Headquarters on 9 September 2011. The theme of this three-day conference was “Enabling Development, Realizing the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities” and the sub-themes of the Conference were “Realizing the Convention through International Cooperation”, “ Political and Civil Participation” and “ Work and Employment”. Minister Shakir preceded his official...
read moreTelecom Policy 2006 – 2010: Reasonable communication means for Persons with disAbilities in Maldives?
What has been done to establish a reasonable communication means for Persons with disAbilities in Maldives? I was going through the Telecom Policy 2006 – 2010 and its objective to Establish reasonable communication means for People with disAbilities under Infrastructure Development caught my attention. It says; Objective 2.7: Establish reasonable communication means for people with special needs (PWD’s) Telecomunication being considered as a basic right of the people, it is necessary that all citizens including people...
read moreGuideline to screen disability forms by the Ministry of Health, Maldives.
T he Disability Evaluation Under Social Security, (also known as the “Blue Book”) prepared to provide healthcare professionals in the United States to evaluate disability programs administered by their Social Security Administration has been published in our Ministry of Health website as a standard ‘disability guideline’ that would be followed in verifying information for disability forms in the Maldives. This blue book can be used as a reference of listing Impairments and how DGFPS of the Health Ministry could partially...
read moreThe Council to Protect the Rights of People with Disabilities
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...
read moreMaldives Ratifies its disAbility Act/Bill
The disAbility Act or disAbility Bill has been ratified by the President. The bill protected rights of Persons with disabilities and promises a financial assistance for them. It was ratified after being sent back to the Parliment for the second time. The bill was first passed by the parliament on 21 December 2009. But it had many clauses which wasn’t agreed by stakeholders and it was not even inline with the UNCRPD(UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities) and some NGO’s with Parents called the disAbility Act...
read moreMaldives formally ratifies UNCRPD
1 April 2010, New York; The Maldives has today lodged its instrument of ratification of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disability (CRPD). Having signed the Convention on 2 October 2007, with the ratification today the Maldives becomes the 85th UN Member State to formally accept the obligations contained in the treaty… Read more at Ministry of Foreign affairs website http://www.foreign.gov.mv/v3/?p=news&view=sep&nid=3236 Popularity:...
read moreThe UNCRPD gets approval from the Parliament to be ratified by Maldives
3rd March 2010, Maldivian Parliament votes approval to ratify the UN CRPD or UN Convention on the Rights for Persons with Disabilities. Maldives signed the UN CRPD on the 2nd of October 2007 at the UN’s annual Treaty Event in New York. This treaty was signed by the Minister of Foriegn Affairs(2007), Abdulla Shahid who is now the Parliament Speaker(above). Since then, Handicap International played a major role in helping the government, NGO’s in trying to get policies inline with the CRPD. It was the Sensitization meeting held at...
read moreMVdisAbilityNetwork final document on Disability Bill
After many meetings and discussions with members of MVdisAbilityNetwork, the common document for the ammendments by AG Office has been finalised by stakeholders involved in the MVdisAbilityNet. And it has been sent to the Attorney General’s Office for approval and fine tuning which hopefully will be included in the ammendments by the President to the Parliament. In the meantime, NGO’s, CBO’s, CSO’s, Parents, PwD’s and even the Ministries themselves need to work on selling this to the Parliament. Parents too can...
read moreThe Disability Act sent back to Parliament
President Nasheed, sends back the bill on People with Special Needs or the Disability Act which we have been lobbying not to be ratified due to it’s lack of provisions in health sector and the importance of the bill to be in line with the UNCRPD. I’d like to congratulate ADD, CARE Society, MDA and those brave parents who took part in the ‘Silent Appeal’ near the President’s Office and thank President Nasheed for sending it back to Parliament so that we, Civil Society Organizations can persuade the MP’s into...
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