Maldives’ visually impaired persons presented opportunity to enter Disability Registry
In less than a month from the article at Yafaau’s blog about the difference in the allowance for Persons with disAbilities, Department of Gender and Family takes action and requests all Visually impaired persons to register themselves in the Registry for PwD’s. This is a good initiative by the health ministry. I think, rather than registering themselves, Dept. of Gender should add them to the registry with verification. And there should not be a deadline as the disability bill does not have any deadlines mentioned in it! Any...
read moreVeshifahi Male – First phase application forms
Veshifahi Male first phase application forms download links There are 4 files, weighing 5.7 MiB with 7,120 hits in Veshifahi.Displaying 1 to 4 of 4 files.Veshifahi Luifoiy» 744.1 KiB - 663 hits - January 10, 2011Veshifahi programme ge aiymathee lui foiy Veshifahi 1st phase Category C form» 1.8 MiB - 4,784 hits - January 10, 2011Maley municipalityge dhaftharugai ragistryvefaivaa meehunna maleygai ginadhuvahu vazsanverivefaivaa meehun boahiyaavahikamah edhey form Veshifahi 1st phase Category B...
read moredisAbility day ideas for 2010
With my last post to find volunteers for disAbility day 2010, I’ve been getting questions about details of the events planned. As I highlighted earlier, we need volunteers for the main events which are; Rally or Walk from Social Center to Artificial beach Family day (Aailee Haveeru) at Artificial beach. However, there are couple of ideas in plan which will be confirmed in monday’s meeting at the Ministry(Gender dept.). Here’s some details; Friday Sermon(khuthubaa) by a Person with a disAbility(PwD). 3rd...
read moreJournalist calls for euthanasia of disabled newborns
The article titled “Finish it off so it doesn’t suffer,” which calls for the euthanasia of disabled newborn children, has caused public outrage in Russia and has led to fierce debates in the blogging community. In the article under question, the author Aleksandr Nikonov argues that the birth of a disabled child for many families would be an unbearable tragedy, “a hell”, and that “the killing of the newborn is in fact the same as an abortion”. He states that depriving infants, who will never be able to take care of themselves, of...
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 moreHRCM Releases the Baseline Assessment on Activities Addressing Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Human Rights Commission of the Maldives (HRCM) has released the Report of the Baseline Assessment on Activities Addressing Rights of Persons with Disabilities. In it HRCM highlighted 29 recommendations to the government stakeholders. The Recommendations include; Speed up the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) through developing a national implementation plan. Design and conduct a continuing programme to raise societal awareness necessary to enable respect for the rights and dignity of persons...
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:...
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