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Save Celebrating CRPD: A View from Bangladesh

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De: Violeta Krasnic

enviado: May 19 08

Witnessed: 362 times

  Ranqueado: 1 tiempo

Bangladesh

Discrimination, Mental disability rights, Physical disability

Bangladesh, disability, discrimination

Eighty percent of more than 650 million persons with disabilities worldwide live in developing counties. Khandaker Jahurul Alam, the Executive Director of CSID in Bangladesh, looks at the impact of disability compounded by poverty and isolation and outlines next steps toward full implementation of CRPD.

This interview was conducted on May 12, 2008 at the UN event celebrating entry into force of the CRPD - Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. In the words of a Hungarian delegate, this “ground-breaking treaty is the most extensively debated international convention ever, created with maximum involvement of the civil society,” and the one with extremely strong control mechanism to secure implementation.

According to the Convention’s Secretariat, this treaty defines a paradigm shift: from an approach where persons with disabilities were considered "objects" of charity, social protection and medical treatment to "subjects" with human rights, who are capable of claiming those rights and making decisions for their lives based on their free and informed consent, as well as being active members of the society.

The Convention and its Optional Protocol give universal recognition to the dignity of persons with disabilities. By ratifying these instruments, states commit to enact laws and measures to improve disability rights, and also to abolish discriminatory legislation, customs, and practices.

See the "Related Media" tab to watch more interviews conducted at the event.