Disabled should have equal rights
Disabled people in southern Africa have access to secret voting systems and fully and actively in regional integration. You must also show the percentage of people with disabilities in the parliaments of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), as it did in the case of gender representation. Deputy Prime Minister dr. Libertine Amathila last week was a statement on his behalf at the Annual Meeting and Planning Workshop of the Southern African Federation of Disabled (SAFOD) in Windhoek to read, said that no rights are less important or less important, not some people in the SADC. Dr. Amathila added that the rights of persons with disabilities than any other known and must be respected.
The workshop took place one week after the Parliament of Namibia approved the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities can be signed. Namibia has over during the series of historical events that the recognition of equality and the right attitude towards people with disabilities in the region and Namibia in particular.
Dr. Amathila said the United Nations Convention on measures to promote, protect and ensure the enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms by persons with disabilities and promote their dignity, is a step in the right direction for all players are supported. She said the Parliament’s request, the Human Rights Convention of the United Nations needs the support of Member States should be signed. She said the convention will be meaningless if the circumstances of people with disabilities better. The movement of self-representation of people with disabilities Parliament a few months ago after the parliamentary elections gave me. Alexia Ncube, has been presented. Dr. Amathila said the SADC member states on an ongoing basis, the new approach to disability should be reported as no longer a health issue but a matter of human rights and development. We must also believe that access to legal mechanisms to move their rights. member countries to travel to his responsibility for the health of people with disabilities at the offices of State and Government, so that the map of Africa Decade of Persons with hearing disabilities can be given. Do you think that the proposal to coordinate enough visibility for people with disabilities and the implementation of disability policy at all levels of government and ministries and control.
The deputy minister said that the concerns in relation to a disability will not solve a simple task because there is a change of attitude in the population is necessary. He added that all decision makers to meet their responsibilities towards people with disabilities. Accountability goes hand in hand with the assurance that the provision of services, products and information for people with disabilities. He needs financial assistance. Dr. Amathila said members of the SAFOD tools need to implement the African Decade of Persons with Disabilities to oversee the support. She said governments should not work without the participation of persons with disabilities in all levels of government. Plans for people with disabilities can also be seen in its budget for each plan. She said the SADC on the Millennium Development Goals and poverty verminderingstrategie reached, the Member States to contribute to equality of disability, those living with to ensure this part of the strategy. Kachaje me Rachel, president of the SAFOD, said the aim of the workshop and meeting participation, research, development and implementation. It will also provide technical support and vermoënsverheffingsmaatstawwe and take the necessary measures for implementing omdie based disability policy. The Council is the five-year plan SAFOD strategic and agree on how to proceed.







