Maldives 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 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...
read moreRatifying the current Disability Act by President Nasheed would be a disaster!
The Disability Act has been passed with the recommendations from the Committee for Social Affairs of Majlis. Stakeholders like CARE and Health Ministry met with this ‘Committee’ to advice on corrections and additions to this bill and I can say, there was almost no corrections into it. In addition, it was passed with a clause to give benefits for the Thalassemia Patients as well! MP Riyaz Rasheed submitted a Bill on providing monetary assistance to “People with Special Needs”. Later Government submits a bill on Rights...
read morePassing of ‘Disability Act’ Bill sends a clear message to CSO’s: We won’t hear you!
This ‘Disability Act’ bill which the Maldivian Parliament passed today contains a lot of clauses which many of the Civil Society Organizations(CSO’s) disagree. The first thing anyone would notice is the terminology used. It’s quite clear that People with Special Needs are not only Persons with a disAbility and i do understand disAbility terminology is a controversial issue everywhere. Disability Act and the final Report by the Committee(dhivehi) on Social Affairs (Ijuthimaaee Committee) of the Popularity:...
read moreWebsite Reputation
I'm a top Advisor! Ask me your shopping questions: