RIGHTS OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES

Person with disability

Person with disability refer to are those suffering from restriction of different abilities,
as a result of a mental, physical or sensory impairment, to perform an activity in the manner or
within the range considered normal for a human being.

Marginalized disable person with disability

Is one who lack access to rehabilitation services and opportunities to able to participate
fully in socioeconomic activities and who have no means of livelihood or whose income fall
below the poverty threshold

RESPECT FOR INHERENT DIGNITY AND INDEPENDCE

Article 10
Right to life
States Parties reaffirm that every human being has the inherent right to life and shall take all
necessary measures to ensure its effective enjoyment by persons with disabilities on an equal
basis with others.

Article 11
Protection in situation of risk and humanitarian emergencies
States Parties shall take, in accordance with their obligations under international law, including
international humanitarian law and international human rights law, all necessary measures to
ensure the protection and safety of persons with disabilities in situations of risk, including
situations of armed conflict, humanitarian emergencies and the occurrence of natural disasters

Article 13
Access to justice

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1. States Parties shall ensure effective access to justice for persons with disabilities on an equal
basis with others, including through the provision of procedural and age-appropriate
accommodations, in order to facilitate their effective role as direct and indirect participants,
including as witnesses, in all legal proceedings, including at investigative and other preliminary
stages.

2. In order to help to ensure effective access to justice for persons with disabilities, States
Parties shall promote appropriate training for those working in the field of administration of
justice, including police and prison staff.

In order to comply with the requirements, the Philippines enacted the R.A. 7277, also known as
Magna Carta for Disabled Persons. The section 44 and 45 of the said law provides that:
SECTION 44. Enforcement by the Secretary of Justice
(a) Denial of Right
1) Duty to Investigate
the Secretary of Justice shall investigate alleged violations of this Act, and shall
undertake periodic reviews of compliance of covered entities under this Act.
(b) Potential Violations If the Secretary of Justice has reasonable cause to believe that:
1) any person or group of persons is engaged in a pattern of practice of discrimination
under this Act; or
2) any person or group of persons has been discriminated against under this Act and
such discrimination raises and issue of general public importance, the Secretary of
Justice may commence a legal action in any appropriate court.

SECTION 45. Authority of Court

The court may grant any equitable relief that such court considers to be appropriate, including,
to the extent required by this Act:
(a) granting temporary, preliminary or permanent relief;
(b) providing an auxiliary aid or service, modification of policy, practice or procedure, or
alternative method; and
(c) making facilities readily accessible to and usable by individuals with disabilities.

Article 14
Liberty and security of person

1. States Parties shall ensure that persons with disabilities, on an equal basis with others:

a) Enjoy the right to liberty and security of person;

b) Are not deprived of their liberty unlawfully or arbitrarily, and that any deprivation of liberty is
in conformity with the law, and that the existence of a disability shall in no case justify a
deprivation of liberty.

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2. States Parties shall ensure that if persons with disabilities are deprived of their liberty
through any process, they are, on an equal basis with others, entitled to guarantees in
accordance with international human rights law and shall be treated in compliance with the
objectives and principles of the present Convention, including by provision of reasonable
accommodation.

Article 15
Freedom from torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment

1. No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or

punishment. In particular, no one shall be subjected without his or her free consent to medical
or scientific experimentation.

2. States Parties shall take all effective legislative, administrative, judicial or other measures to
prevent persons with disabilities, on an equal basis with others, from being subjected to torture
or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

Article 16
Freedom from exploitation, violence and abuse

1. States Parties shall take all appropriate legislative, administrative, social, educational and
other measures to protect persons with disabilities, both within and outside the home, from all
forms of exploitation, violence and abuse, including their gender-based aspects.

2. States Parties shall also take all appropriate measures to prevent all forms of exploitation,
violence and abuse by ensuring, inter alia, appropriate forms of gender- and age-sensitive
assistance and support for persons with disabilities and their families and caregivers, including
through the provision of information and education on how to avoid, recognize and report
instances of exploitation, violence and abuse. States Parties shall ensure that protection
services are age-, gender- and disability-sensitive.

3. In order to prevent the occurrence of all forms of exploitation, violence and abuse, States
Parties shall ensure that all facilities and programmes designed to serve persons with
disabilities are effectively monitored by independent authorities.

4. States Parties shall take all appropriate measures to promote the physical, cognitive and
psychological recovery, rehabilitation and social reintegration of persons with disabilities who
become victims of any form of exploitation, violence or abuse, including through the provision
of protection services. Such recovery and reintegration shall take place in an environment that
fosters the health, welfare, self-respect, dignity and autonomy of the person and takes into
account gender- and age-specific needs.

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5. States Parties shall put in place effective legislation and policies, including women- and child-
focused legislation and policies, to ensure that instances of exploitation, violence and abuse
against persons with disabilities are identified, investigated and, where appropriate,
prosecuted.

Article 17
Protecting the integrity of the person

Every person with disabilities has a right to respect for his or her physical and mental integrity
on an equal basis with others.

RESPECT FOR THE EVOLVING CAPACITIES OF CHILDREN WITH

DISABLITITES AND TO PRESERVE THEIR IDENTITIES
Article 7
Children with disabilities
1. States Parties shall take all necessary measures to ensure the full enjoyment by children with
disabilities of all human rights and fundamental freedoms on an equal basis with other children.
2. In all actions concerning children with disabilities, the best interests of the child shall be a
primary consideration. 3. States Parties shall ensure that children with disabilities have the right
to express their views freely on all matters affecting them, their views being given due weight in
accordance with their age and maturity, on an equal basis with other children, and to be
provided with disability and age-appropriate assistance to realize that right.

In order for the right of a disable child in the Philippines such law like (Implementing Rules and
Regulation of The Magna Carta for Disable Person R.A. No 7277) are made and in order to
further comply stated Under Rule V. Section 1.(G ) of the said law States: Provision of Day Care
Services for disabled children of pre-school age. It is the aim of this service to reintegrate the
disabled child with existing day care services in order for him to grow as normal a child as
possible in spite of his disabilities. The normal children in the center shall be helped to be more
understanding of the plight of the disabled child letting him participate in everyday activities

NON-DISCRIMINATION

Article 5
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 Equality and non-discrimination
1. States Parties recognize that all persons are equal before and under the law and are entitled
without any discrimination to the equal protection and equal benefit of the law.

2. States Parties shall prohibit all discrimination on the basis of disability and guarantee to
persons with disabilities equal and effective legal protection against discrimination on all
grounds.

3. In order to promote equality and eliminate discrimination, States Parties shall take all
appropriate steps to ensure that reasonable accommodation is provided.

4. Specific measures which are necessary to accelerate or achieve de facto equality of persons
with disabilities shall not be considered discrimination under the terms of the present
Convention.

To ensure the equal recognition of disabled persons, the Magna Carta of Disabled Persons
provides for the non-discrimination provisions:

1. Discrimination on Employment

A qualified disable person shall given opportunity of employment .That individual or entity,
whether public or private, who shall discriminate against a qualified disabled person by reason
of disability in regard to job application procedures; the hiring, promotion, or discharge of
employees, employee
compensation, job training, and other terms and conditions of employment. The following acts
of that constitute discrimination are states in (Implementing Rules and Regulation of The
Magna Carta for Disable Person R.A. No 7277)

2. Discrimination on Transportation

It shall be considered discrimination for the franchises or operators and personnel of sea, land,
and air transportation facilities to charge higher fare or to refuse to convey a passenger, his
orthopaedic devices, personal effects, and merchandise by reason of his disability.

3. Discrimination on the Use of Public

Under Section 35. Of the Implenting Rules and Regulation of The Magna Carta dor Disbable
Person R.A. No 7277 provide Public Accommodations and Services

4. Discrimination on the Use of Public Accommodations

SECTION 36. Discrimination on the Use of Public Accommodations

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 (a) No disabled persons shall be discriminated on the basis of disability in the full and equal
enjoyment of the goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages
or accommodations of any place of public accommodation by any person who owns, leases,
or operates a place of public accommodation.
(b). Integrated Settings
(c). Opportunity to Participate

ACCESIBILITY
Article 9
Accessibility

To enable persons with disabilities to live independently and participate fully in all aspects of
life, States Parties shall take appropriate measures to ensure to persons with disabilities access,
on an equal basis with others, to the physical environment, to transportation, to information
and communications, including information and communications technologies and systems,
and to other facilities

Article 18
Liberty of movement and nationality

1. States Parties shall recognize the rights of persons with disabilities to liberty of movement, to
freedom to choose their residence and to a nationality, on an equal basis with others, including
by ensuring that persons with disabilities:
(a) Have the right to acquire and change a nationality and are not deprived of their nationality
arbitrarily or on the basis of disability;
(b) Are not deprived, on the basis of disability, of their ability to obtain, possess and utilize
documentation of their nationality or other documentation of identification, or to utilize
relevant processes such as immigration proceedings, that may be needed to facilitate exercise
of the right to liberty of movement;
(c) Are free to leave any country, including their own;
(d) Are not deprived, arbitrarily or on the basis of disability, of the right to enter their own
country.
2. Children with disabilities shall be registered immediately after birth and shall have the right
from birth to a name, the right to acquire a nationality and, as far as possible, the right to know
and be cared for by their parents.

The Magna Carta for Person with Disability provide the Right to Barrier-Free Enviroment in
order to ensure the attainment of a barrier-free environment that will enable disabled persons
to have access in public and private buildings and establishments

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Moreover Batas Pambansa 344 was enacted by the Philippines, which requires that:
architectural facilities or structural features as shall reasonably enhance the mobility of
disabled persons such as sidewalks, ramps, railings and the like. If feasible, all such existing
buildings, institutions, establishments, or public utilities to be constructed or established for
which licenses or permits had already been issued may comply with the requirements of this
law. Special bus stops shall be designed for disabled persons. Discriminating against disabled
persons in the carriage or transportation of passengers is hereby declared unlawful.

To furthermore comply with the convention, under Republic Act No. 7277, as amended, enacts
that:

SECTION 26. Mobility.

The State promote the mobility of disabled persons. Disabled persons shall be allowed to
drive motor vehicles, subject to the rules and regulations issued by the Land
Transportation Office pertinent to the nature of their disability and the appropriate
adaptations or modifications made on such vehicles.

Discrimination on Transportation
SECTION 34. Public Transportation
It shall be considered discrimination for the franchises or operators and personnel of sea,
land, and air transportation facilities to charge higher fare or to refuse to convey a
passenger, his orthopedic devices, personal effects, and merchandise by reason of his
disability.

Another is in the Implemention Rules and Regulation of Republic Act No. 10754 The An Act
Expanding the Benefits and Privileges of Persons with Disability

Section 10. Express Lanes for Persons with Disabilities Express lanes for persons with
disability shall be provided in all commercial and government establishments. In the absence
thereof, priority shall be given to them in all the transactions of the establishments.

EQUAL OPPURTUNITY
Article 25
Health

States Parties recognize that persons with disabilities have the right to the enjoyment of the
highest attainable standard of health without discrimination on the basis of disability. States
Parties shall take all appropriate measures to ensure access for persons with disabilities to
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health services that are gender-sensitive, including health-related rehabilitation. In particular,
States Parties shall:

a) Provide persons with disabilities with the same range, quality and standard of free or
affordable health care and programmes as provided to other persons, including in the area of
sexual and reproductive health and population-based public health programmes;

b) Provide those health services needed by persons with disabilities specifically because of their
disabilities, including early identification and intervention as appropriate, and services designed
to minimize and prevent further disabilities, including among children and older persons;

c) Provide these health services as close as possible to peoples own communities, including in
rural areas;

d) Require health professionals to provide care of the same quality to persons with disabilities
as to others, including on the basis of free and informed consent by, inter alia, raising
awareness of the human rights, dignity, autonomy and needs of persons with disabilities
through training and the promulgation of ethical standards for public and private health care;

e) Prohibit discrimination against persons with disabilities in the provision of health insurance,
and life insurance where such insurance is permitted by national law, which shall be provided in
a fair and reasonable manner;

f) Prevent discriminatory denial of health care or health services or food and fluids on the basis
of disability.

Article 26
Habilitation and Rehabilitation

1. States Parties shall take effective and appropriate measures, including through peer support,
to enable persons with disabilities to attain and maintain maximum independence, full physical,
mental, social and vocational ability, and full inclusion and participation in all aspects of life. To
that end, States Parties shall organize, strengthen and extend comprehensive habilitation and
rehabilitation services and programmes, particularly in the areas of health, employment,
education and social services, in such a way that these services and programmes:

a) Begin at the earliest possible stage, and are based on the multidisciplinary assessment of
individual needs and strengths;

b) Support participation and inclusion in the community and all aspects of society, are
voluntary, and are available to persons with disabilities as close as possible to their own
communities, including in rural areas.

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2. States Parties shall promote the development of initial and continuing training for
professionals and staff working in habilitation and rehabilitation services.

3. States Parties shall promote the availability, knowledge and use of assistive devices and
technologies, designed for persons with disabilities, as they relate to habilitation and
rehabilitation.

c) Provide these health services as close as possible to peoples own communities, including in
rural areas;

d) Require health professionals to provide care of the same quality to persons with disabilities
as to others, including on the basis of free and informed consent by, inter alia, raising
awareness of the human rights, dignity, autonomy and needs of persons with disabilities
through training and the promulgation of ethical standards for public and private health care;

e) Prohibit discrimination against persons with disabilities in the provision of health insurance,
and life insurance where such insurance is permitted by national law, which shall be provided in
a fair and reasonable manner;

f) Prevent discriminatory denial of health care or health services or food and fluids on the basis
of disability

In the Magna Carta for Disabled Persons

Sec. 18. National Health Program. The Department of Health in coordination with the
National Council for the Welfare of Disabled Persons, shall institute a national health program
which shall aim to attain the following:
(a) prevention of disability, whether occurring prenatally or postnatally;
(b) recognition and early diagnosis of disability; and
(c) early rehabilitation of the disabled.

Sec. 19. Rehabilitation Centers. The Department of Health shall establish medical
rehabilitation centers in government provincial hospitals, and shall include in its annual
appropriation the necessary funds for the operation of such centers. The Department of Health
shall formulate and implement a program to enable marginalized disabled persons to avail of
free rehabilitation services in government hospitals.

Sec. 20. Health Services. The State shall protect and promote the right to health of disabled
persons and shall adopt an integrated and comprehensive approach to their health
development which shall make essential health services available to them at affordable cost.
The National Government shall provide an integrated health service for disabled persons which

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shall include, but not limited to, the following:
(a) prevention of disability through immunization, nutrition, environmental protection and
preservation, and genetic counseling; and early detection of disability and timely intervention
to arrest disabling condition; and

(b) medical treatment and rehabilitation.

The Department of Health shall field medical personnel specializing in the treatment and
rehabilitation of disabled persons to provincial hospitals and, when viable, to municipal health
centers. It shall also train its field health personnel in the provision of medical attention to
disabled persons. It shall further ensure that its field health units have the necessary
capabilities to fit prosthetic and orthotic appliances on disabled persons.

Persons with disabilities have the right to equal access to the same standard of health care and
health-care services as others, and States parties must take all appropriate measures to ensure
that persons with disabilities have access to health services that are gender-sensitive, including
health-related rehabilitation. Health care must be provided on the basis of free and informed
consent.

Article 27
Work and employment

1. States Parties recognize the right of persons with disabilities to work, on an equal basis with
others; this includes the right to the opportunity to gain a living by work freely chosen or
accepted in a labour market and work environment that is open, inclusive and accessible to
persons with disabilities. States Parties shall safeguard and promote the realization of the right
to work, including for those who acquire a disability during the course of employment, by
taking appropriate steps, including through legislation, to, inter alia:

a) Prohibit discrimination on the basis of disability with regard to all matters concerning all
forms of employment, including conditions of recruitment, hiring and employment,
continuance of employment, career advancement and safe and healthy working conditions;

b) Protect the rights of persons with disabilities, on an equal basis with others, to just and
favourable conditions of work, including equal opportunities and equal remuneration for work
of equal value, safe and healthy working conditions, including protection from harassment, and
the redress of grievances;

c) Ensure that persons with disabilities are able to exercise their labour and trade union rights
on an equal basis with others;

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d) Enable persons with disabilities to have effective access to general technical and vocational
guidance programmes, placement services and vocational and continuing training;

e) Promote employment opportunities and career advancement for persons with disabilities in
the labour market, as well as assistance in finding, obtaining, maintaining and returning to
employment;

f) Promote opportunities for self-employment, entrepreneurship, the development of

cooperatives and starting ones own business;

g) Employ persons with disabilities in the public sector;

h) Promote the employment of persons with disabilities in the private sector through
appropriate policies and measures, which may include affirmative action programmes,
incentives and other measures;

i) Ensure that reasonable accommodation is provided to persons with disabilities in the

workplace;

j) Promote the acquisition by persons with disabilities of work experience in the open labour
market;

k) Promote vocational and professional rehabilitation, job retention and return-to-work

programmes for persons with disabilities.

2. States Parties shall ensure that persons with disabilities are not held in slavery or in
servitude, and are protected, on an equal basis with others, from forced or compulsory labour.

States parties must promote the realization of the right to work and take appropriate steps,
inter alia, to promote employment in the private sector and to ensure that reasonable
accommodation is provided in the workplace. States parties are called upon to employ persons
with disabilities in the public sector. In The Magna Carta for Person with Disability the following
Section give the guideline and right and privilege of a person in order to qualified employment
with being discriminated
Sec. 5. Equal Opportunity for Employment
Sec. 6. Sheltered Employment
Sec. 7. Apprenticeship.
Sec. 8. Incentives for Employers..
Sec. 9. Vocational Rehabilitation.
Sec. 10. Vocational Guidance and Counselling
Sec. 11. Implementing Rules and Regulations.

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 FULL AND EFFECTVE PARTICIPATION AND INCLUSION IN THE SOCIETY
Article 8
Awareness Raising
1. States Parties undertake to adopt immediate, effective and appropriate measures:

(a) To raise awareness throughout society, including at the family level, regarding persons with
disabilities, and to foster respect for the rights and dignity of persons with disabilities;

(b) To combat stereotypes, prejudices and harmful practices relating to persons with
disabilities, including those based on sex and age, in all areas of life;

(c) To promote awareness of the capabilities and contributions of persons with disabilities.

2. Measures to this end include:

(a) Initiating and maintaining effective public awareness campaigns designed:

(i)To nurture receptiveness to the rights of persons with disabilities;
(ii) To promote positive perceptions and greater social awareness towards persons with
disabilities;
(iii) To promote recognition of the skills, merits and abilities of persons with disabilities, and
of their contributions to the workplace and the labour market;

(b) Fostering at all levels of the education system, including in all children from an early age, an
attitude of respect for the rights of persons with disabilities;

(c) Encouraging all organs of the media to portray persons with disabilities in a manner
consistent with the purpose of the present Convention;

(d) Promoting awareness-training programmes regarding persons with disabilities and the
rights of persons with disabilities.

In order to comply with the Article of the Convention there are local laws enacted by the
Philippines, whereas:

1. ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER NO. 35: Directing all departments, bureaus, government-

owned and/or controlled corporations, government financial institutions, local
government units, state universities/colleges and schools, and other
government/instrumentalities to promote and conduct relevant activities during the
annual observance of the national disability prevention and rehabilitation week.

Under this Administrative Order, it enacts the following:

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 - National Disability Prevention and Rehabilitation Week on July 23 each year.
- Under Section 2 of the said order it mandates that: All departments, agencies, offices,
GOCCs and LGUs and other government agencies/instrumentalities as well as the mass
media and the entire citizenry are hereby required to extend their whole-hearted
support and cooperation by conducting specific programs necessary to give effect to this
order.

Furthermore INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES IN THE PHILIPPINES also

recognize every December 3, Under Proclamation No. 1157 whereas there is a need to
synergize efforts and resources by both public and private sectors for the promotion and
improvement of well-being of persons with disabilities to enable them to be part of our nations
development and progress. That local and national shall be the lead agency for all the activities
relative to the observance of International Day of Persons with Disabilities. These also include
the cooperation of all public and private agencies and civil society organizations (C50s) engaged
in the development of persons with disabilities

Article 19
Living Independently and Being Included in the Community

States Parties to this Convention recognize the equal right of all persons with disabilities to live
in the community, with choices equal to others, and shall take effective and appropriate
measures to facilitate full enjoyment by persons with disabilities of this right and their full
inclusion and participation in the community, including by ensuring that:

Persons with disabilities have the opportunity to choose their place of residence and where and
with whom they live on an equal basis with others and are not obliged to live in a particular
living arrangement;

Persons with disabilities have access to a range of in-home, residential and other community
support services, including personal assistance necessary to support living and inclusion in the
community, and to prevent isolation or segregation from the community;

Community services and facilities for the general population are available on an equal basis to
persons with disabilities and are responsive to their needs.

In order to comply with the requirements, Magna Carta for Disabled Persons provide the
following;

SECTION 21. Auxiliary Social Services The State shall ensure that marginalized persons are
provided with the necessary auxiliary services that will restore their social functioning and
participation in community affairs. Toward this end, the Department of Social Welfare and

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Development shall develop and implement programs on auxiliary social services that respond
to the needs of marginalized disabled persons.

SECTION 31. Right to Organize The State recognize the rights of disabled persons to form
organizations or associations that promote their welfare and advance or safeguard their
interests and also to ensure the active participation of disabled persons in the social economic
development of the country, their organizations shall be encouraged to participate in the
planning, organization and management of government programs and projects for disabled
persons.

Article 29
Participation in political and public life

States Parties shall guarantee to persons with disabilities political rights and the opportunity to
enjoy them on an equal basis with others, and shall undertake:

a) To ensure that persons with disabilities can effectively and fully participate in political and
public life on an equal basis with others, directly or through freely chosen representatives,
including the right and opportunity for persons with disabilities to vote and be elected, inter
alia, by:

i. Ensuring that voting procedures, facilities and materials are appropriate, accessible and easy
to understand and use;

ii. Protecting the right of persons with disabilities to vote by secret ballot in elections and public
referendums without intimidation, and to stand for elections, to effectively hold office and
perform all public functions at all levels of government, facilitating the use of assistive and new
technologies where appropriate;

iii. Guaranteeing the free expression of the will of persons with disabilities as electors and to
this end, where necessary, at their request, allowing assistance in voting by a person of their
own choice;

b) To promote actively an environment in which persons with disabilities can effectively and
fully participate in the conduct of public affairs, without discrimination and on an equal basis
with others, and encourage their participation in public affairs, including:

i. Participation in non-governmental organizations and associations concerned with the public

and political life of the country, and in the activities and administration of political parties;

ii. Forming and joining organizations of persons with disabilities to represent persons with
disabilities at international, national, regional and local levels.

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In Magna Carta of Person with Disability CHAPTER VII POLITICAL AND CIVIL RIGHTS Section
29,30 and 31 give the disable person the Right to Suffrage , Right to Assemble and The Right to
Organize respectively . That they are can be given assistance in voting constitute an election
offense. Polling places should be made accessible to disabled persons during national or local
elections

Article 30
Participation in cultural life, recreation, leisure and sport

1. States Parties recognize the right of persons with disabilities to take part on an equal basis
with others in cultural life, and shall take all appropriate measures to ensure that persons with
disabilities:

a) Enjoy access to cultural materials in accessible formats;

b) Enjoy access to television programmes, films, theatre and other cultural activities, in
accessible formats;

c) Enjoy access to places for cultural performances or services, such as theatres, museums,
cinemas, libraries and tourism services, and, as far as possible, enjoy access to monuments and
sites of national cultural importance.

2. States Parties shall take appropriate measures to enable persons with disabilities to have the
opportunity to develop and utilize their creative, artistic and intellectual potential, not only for
their own benefit, but also for the enrichment of society.

3. States Parties shall take all appropriate steps, in accordance with international law, to ensure
that laws protecting intellectual property rights do not constitute an unreasonable or
discriminatory barrier to access by persons with disabilities to cultural materials.

4. Persons with disabilities shall be entitled, on an equal basis with others, to recognition and
support of their specific cultural and linguistic identity, including sign languages and deaf
culture.

5. With a view to enabling persons with disabilities to participate on an equal basis with others
in recreational, leisure and sporting activities, States Parties shall take appropriate measures:

a) To encourage and promote the participation, to the fullest extent possible, of persons with
disabilities in mainstream sporting activities at all levels;

b) To ensure that persons with disabilities have an opportunity to organize, develop and
participate in disability-specific sporting and recreational activities and, to this end, encourage
the provision, on an equal basis with others, of appropriate instruction, training and resources;

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c) To ensure that persons with disabilities have access to sporting, recreational and tourism
venues;

d) To ensure that children with disabilities have equal access with other children to
participation in play, recreation and leisure and sporting activities, including those activities in
the school system;

(e) To ensure that persons with disabilities have access to services from those involved in the
organization of recreational, tourism, leisure and sporting activities

In further Compliance In

Section 21. Provides the Auxiliary Social Services. The State shall ensure that marginalized
persons are provided with the necessary auxiliary services that will restore their social
functioning and participation in community affairs. Towards this end, the Department of Social
Welfare and Development shall develop and implement programs on auxiliary social services
that respond to the needs of marginalized disabled persons. The components of such a
program shall be as follows:

(a) assistance in the acquisition of prosthetic devices and medical intervention of specialty
services;

(b) provision of specialized training activities designed to improve functional limitations of

disabled persons related to communication skills;

(c) development among disabled persons of a positive self-image through the provision of
counseling, orientation and mobility and strengthening daily living capability;

(d) provision of family care services geared towards developing the capability of families to
respond to the needs of the disabled members of the family;

(e) provision of substitute family care services and the facilities therefor for abandoned,
neglected, abused and unattached disabled persons who need custodial care;

(f) provision of after care and follow-up services for the continued rehabilitation in a
community-based setting of disabled persons who were released from residential care or
rehabilitation centers; and

(g) provision of day care services for disabled children of pre-school

Persons with disabilities have the right to equal access to play, relaxation, amusement and
physical pastimes. States parties must take all feasible steps to ensure the availability of cultural

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activities such as lm, theatre, museums and monuments in accessible formats (e.g., sign
language, Braille, closed-captioning). States parties must also take all feasible steps to ensure
that cultural activities are held in places accessible to persons with disabilities

Persons with disabilities have the right to equal access to play, relaxation, amusement and
physical pastimes. States parties must take all feasible steps to ensure the availability of cultural
activities such as lm, theatre, museums and monuments in accessible formats (e.g., sign
language, Braille, closed-captioning). States parties must also take all feasible steps to ensure
that cultural activities are held in places accessible to persons with disabilities

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 RIGHTS OF PERSONS
WITH DISABILITIES

DOBLE. Kieth HUMAN RIGHTS

GASTANES, Edmond (FRI 7:30-930)

GUEVARRA, Robert Arvin

ROBDRIGUEZ, Edvangeline

QUINTOS, Bobby

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