Kassie, Demoz (2012) Legislative Measures for Effective Implementation of CRPD in Ethiopia: A Critical Assessment. Masters thesis, Addis Ababa University.
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Abstract
It i elf-evident that Person with di abilities remain amongst the most marginalized in every ociety. Regardle of a counlly 's human rights or economic situation, they are generally the last in line to have their human rights respected. WHO / World Bank World report on di ability of 2011 estimates that over one billion persons - meaning approximately 15 per cent of the world's total population - suffer from some type of disability. Over two thirds of them live in developing countries. Not being an exception to this fact, Significant number of persons with disabilities found in Ethiopia. Since other international human rights instruments have not protected adequately the rights of persons with disabilities there was a need to have a specific convention tailored for persons with di abilities. The principal arguments for a disability-specific convention are to make it vi ible, specific, effective, and comprehensive and to assure equality . Models of disability provide a perspective on the rationale for the policies and programs developed for, with, and by people with disabilities. Similar to other international human rights instruments, article 4 of the CRPD makes specific reference to the obligation of States parties to adopt legislative measures as a matter of general obligation. Taking legislative measures is one of the most significant forward steps for the realization of rights of persons with disability. Among these adopting legislative measures abolishing any laws which are directly in conflict with the rights of persons with disabilities is the prior measure. In this regard this research finds that Ethiopia has various laws (civil code, criminal code, labour law, and charity proclamation, laws on accessibility of education, health, building, transport, justice and mass media and information technology) that need to be repealed ince these laws are incompatible with the CRPD. Like other antidiscrimination laws failure to provide reasonable accommodation amount to discrimination. Provision of reasonable accommodation is not a special favor to person with disabilities rather it is a means to give an equal opportunity 0 that they can exercise their rights.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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| Subjects: | K Law > K Law (General) |
| Divisions: | Africana |
| Depositing User: | Kabiru Wallace Ndung'u |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Jul 2019 10:37 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Jul 2019 10:37 |
| URI: | http://thesisbank.jhia.ac.ke/id/eprint/9383 |
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