NEW MINISTER FOR WELFARE MINISTER OF MALAYSIA

NEW MINISTER FOR WELFARE MINISTER OF MALAYSIA
Badan Latihan dan Hidup Berdikari Malaysia (ILTC) pada 23hb Mac 2016 menyerahkan memorandum kepada ahli-ahli parlimen mendesak supaya golongan orang kurang upaya (OKU) dikecualikan daripada cukai barangan dan perkhidmatan (GST).

Disabled Members Protest

Disabled Members Protest
Disabled Members Protest at JPJ Wangsa Maju

ILTC Malaysia members staged a protest outside JPJ Wangsamaju KL.

ILTC Malaysia members staged a protest outside JPJ Wangsamaju KL.
Disabled group’s protest disabled drivers required to produce doc's medical report.

Saturday, 31 May 2008

BBC ONLINE: UN Disability Treaty

Saturday, May 31, 2008

BBC ONLINE: UN Disability Treaty

At-a-glance: UN disability treaty

The UN is expected to agree a new treaty giving greater rights to disabled people around the world.

Here is an at-a-glance guide to the draft United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities:
  • Participating countries to change laws and ban discriminatory customs and practices

  • Disabled people to have an equal right to life

  • Equal rights for disabled women and girls

  • Protection for children with disabilities

  • A right to own and inherit property, to control financial affairs and have equal access to financial services

  • Disabled people not to be deprived of their liberty "unlawfully or arbitrarily"

  • Medical or scientific experiments without consent to be banned

  • An end to enforced institutionalisation

  • Freedom from exploitation, violence and abuse

  • A right to privacy and access to medical records

  • Countries to remove barriers to accessing the environment, transport, public facilities and communication

  • A right to independent living

  • Essential equipment to be made affordable

  • A right to an adequate standard of living and social protection

  • An end to discrimination relating to marriage, family and personal relationships

  • Equal access to education

  • An end to discrimination in the job market

  • A right to equal participation in public life

  • A right to participate in cultural life

  • Developing countries to be assisted to put the convention into practice

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