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29 - Participation in political and public life
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Standard Rules
on the Equalization of Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities
Adopted by the United Nations General Assembly, forty-eighth session, resolution
48/96, annex, of 20 December 1993
Rule 14 – Policy-making and planning
States will ensure that disability aspects are included in all relevant policy-making
and national planning.
• States should initiate and plan adequate policies for persons with disabilities
at the national level, and stimulate and support action at regional and local
levels.
• States should involve organizations of persons with disabilities in all decision-making
relating to plans and programmes concerning persons with disabilities or affecting
their economic and social status.
• The needs and concerns of persons with disabilities should be incorporated
into general development plans and not be treated separately.
• The ultimate responsibility of States for the situation of persons with disabilities
does not relieve others of their responsibility. Anyone in charge of services,
activities or the provision of information in society should be encouraged to
accept responsibility for making such programmes available to persons with disabilities.
• States should facilitate the development by local communities of programmes
and measures for persons with disabilities. One way of doing this could be to
develop manuals or check-lists and provide training programmes for local staff.
World Programme of Action Concerning Disabled Persons
Adopted by the United Nations General Assembly, thirty-seventh session, Resolution 37/52 of 3 December 1982
Participation of disabled persons in decision-making
Member States should increase their assistance to organizations of disabled
persons and help them organize and coordinate the representation of the interests
and concerns of disabled persons.
Member States should actively seek out and encourage in every possible way the
development of organizations composed of or representing disabled persons. Such
organizations, in whose membership and governing bodies disabled persons, or
in some cases relatives, have a decisive influence, exist in many countries.
Many of them have not the means to assert themselves and fight for their rights.
Member States should establish direct contacts with such organizations and provide
channels for them to influence government policies and decisions in all areas
that concern them Member States should give the necessary financial support
to organizations of disabled persons for this purpose.
Organizations and other bodies at all levels should ensure that disabled persons
can participate in their activities to the fullest extent possible