MVdisAbilityNetwork final document on Disability Bill
After many meetings and discussions with members of MVdisAbilityNetwork, the common document for the ammendments by AG Office has been finalised by stakeholders involved in the MVdisAbilityNet. And it has been sent to the Attorney General’s Office for approval and fine tuning which hopefully will be included in the ammendments by the President to the Parliament. In the meantime, NGO’s, CBO’s, CSO’s, Parents, PwD’s and even the Ministries themselves need to work on selling this to the Parliament. Parents too can...
read morePassing of ‘Disability Act’ Bill sends a clear message to CSO’s: We won’t hear you!
This ‘Disability Act’ bill which the Maldivian Parliament passed today contains a lot of clauses which many of the Civil Society Organizations(CSO’s) disagree. The first thing anyone would notice is the terminology used. It’s quite clear that People with Special Needs are not only Persons with a disAbility and i do understand disAbility terminology is a controversial issue everywhere. Disability Act and the final Report by the Committee(dhivehi) on Social Affairs (Ijuthimaaee Committee) of...
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