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The right of persons with disabilities to participate in decision-making 2016, para. 100f
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- [The Special Rapporteur offers the following recommendations to assist States in realizing the right of persons with disabilities to participate in decision-making:] Actively involve and closely consult with persons with disabilities and their representative organizations in public budgeting processes and in international cooperation among States;
- Organismo
- Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities
- Tipo de documento
- Special Procedures' report
- Temas
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Personas afectadas
- Persons with disabilities
- Año
- 2016
- Fecha de adición
- 19 de ago. de 2019
Párrafo
The right of persons with disabilities to social protection 2015, para. 52
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- Disability benefits are fundamental for promoting the inclusion and active participation of persons with disabilities; however, if wrongly conceived, they could create disincentives for such participation. When disability benefits bundle assistance to cover disability-related extra costs or access to health care together with income support aimed at reducing poverty, persons with disabilities may lose the entire benefit package if they gain a higher income than the poverty line or minimum income threshold. This places persons with disabilities at a crossroads, where they must choose between securing a minimum but stable income, and seeking employment and further socioeconomic participation and contribution; the latter option bearing the risk of job insecurity or insufficient income to cover all expenses. Therefore, if not well designed, these benefits can in themselves become a "benefit trap" that leads to low labour force participation. This problem is further compounded when the disability benefits are linked to a precondition of being "unable to work" (as opposed to having a low income or a reduced earnings potential) as part of the eligibility criteria, which not only reinforces stereotyping of persons with disabilities, but also perpetuates their dependency on the benefits by eliminating any expectation of their entering the labour market.
- Organismo
- Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities
- Tipo de documento
- Special Procedures' report
- Temas
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Poverty
- Personas afectadas
- Persons with disabilities
- Año
- 2015
- Fecha de adición
- 19 de ago. de 2019
Párrafo
The right of persons with disabilities to participate in decision-making 2016, para. 87
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- States are increasingly introducing participatory budgeting mechanisms, which enable citizens to influence the allocation of public resources through direct discussions and negotiations with authorities. Although participatory budget processes are a valuable opportunity for persons with disabilities to make States more responsive to their needs and preferences, their effectiveness depends upon the provision of accessibility and capacity-building.
- Organismo
- Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities
- Tipo de documento
- Special Procedures' report
- Temas
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Personas afectadas
- Persons with disabilities
- Año
- 2016
- Fecha de adición
- 19 de ago. de 2019
Párrafo
Access to rights-based support for persons with disabilities 2017, para. 83
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- Independent living centres and representative organizations of persons with disabilities can play an important role in ensuring access to personal assistance. They can disseminate information about the obligations of States and service providers, provide assistance in recruitment and budgeting, facilitate support groups and train those who wish to become assistants. They can also foster participatory processes for developing ethical principles and practice guidance. While personal assistants may not require specialized preparation, States should ensure they have adequate training in order to provide safe and quality support. For example, in the Republic of Korea, the Act on Personal Assistance Services for Persons with Disabilities specifies the qualifications, human resources and service providers relating to the provision of personal assistance.
- Organismo
- Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities
- Tipo de documento
- Special Procedures' report
- Temas
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Personas afectadas
- Persons with disabilities
- Año
- 2017
- Fecha de adición
- 19 de ago. de 2019
Párrafo
The right of persons with disabilities to participate in decision-making 2016, para. 88
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- Contributions to the present report have illustrated that persons with disabilities and their representative organizations are generally excluded from public budgeting processes. Inadequate resource allocation and inadequate identification of priority areas, including for funding participatory mechanisms and for representative organizations of persons with disabilities, are of concern. States must therefore adopt a framework that facilitates the participation of persons with disabilities and their representative organizations at all stages of the budgeting process.
- Organismo
- Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities
- Tipo de documento
- Special Procedures' report
- Temas
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Personas afectadas
- Persons with disabilities
- Año
- 2016
- Fecha de adición
- 19 de ago. de 2019
Párrafo
The right of persons with disabilities to participate in decision-making 2016, para. 86
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- The right of persons with disabilities to participate in public decision-making also covers public budgeting processes. Representative organizations of persons with disabilities can play an important role in public budgeting, by providing critical information on the concerns, needs and priorities of persons with disabilities. The participation of persons with disabilities and their representative organizations in public budgets ensures that resources are allocated to priority areas, and that bodies implementing mainstream and disability-specific policies and programmes are held accountable for their performance.
- Organismo
- Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities
- Tipo de documento
- Special Procedures' report
- Temas
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Personas afectadas
- Persons with disabilities
- Año
- 2016
- Fecha de adición
- 19 de ago. de 2019
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Disability-inclusive policies 2016, para. 73
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- The short set of six questions on disability formulated by the Washington Group on Disability Statistics provides a well-tested method for identifying persons with disabilities in national surveys and censuses in an internationally comparable manner. Adding the questions to national surveys (for example, household income and expenditure surveys, labour force surveys and demographic and health surveys) will enable the disaggregation of data needed to monitor most public policies, as well as the indicators for the Sustainable Development Goals. Together with the Washington Group, the United Nations Children's Fund has developed a specific set of questions for children with disabilities and the International Labour Organization is developing a module on employment and disability for labour force surveys. Other relevant instruments available for in-depth data collection on disability include the WHO model disability survey. All those tools are important for supporting the efforts of States to collect data disaggregated by disability.
- Organismo
- Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities
- Tipo de documento
- Special Procedures' report
- Temas
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Personas afectadas
- Children
- Persons with disabilities
- Año
- 2016
- Fecha de adición
- 19 de ago. de 2019
Párrafo
Disability-inclusive policies 2016, para. 24
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- Article 5 (3) of the Convention requires States to take all appropriate steps to ensure that reasonable accommodation is provided to persons with disabilities, whenever that is needed in a particular case. That means providing all the necessary and appropriate modifications and adjustments to accommodate a person's individual characteristics or differences, so as to ensure that persons with disabilities can enjoy all human rights and fundamental freedoms, including in accessing infrastructures, programmes and services, on an equal basis with others. According to article 2 of the Convention, that duty extends to persons who are associated with a person with disabilities (for example, agreeing to a flexible working hours schedule for a person who cares for a child with disabilities) and should not impose a disproportionate or undue burden on the duty-bearer, be it the State or a private entity. States must clearly establish in their legal and policy frameworks that the denial of reasonable accommodation constitutes discriminat ion on the basis of disability.
- Organismo
- Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities
- Tipo de documento
- Special Procedures' report
- Temas
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Personas afectadas
- Children
- Persons with disabilities
- Año
- 2016
- Fecha de adición
- 19 de ago. de 2019
Párrafo
The right of persons with disabilities to social protection 2015, para. 59
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- Fourth, disability-related services, devices and other assistance may also be subject to means-testing, limiting the coverage of disability-related programmes. In this respect, the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities has expressed concern about limiting access to social protection benefits and subsidies to those who meet "poverty criteria" or a "financial assets test". Therefore, while poverty reduction programmes should include additional disability-related expenditures, disability-specific social protection programmes should not be limited in scope to the poverty threshold, without considering the extra costs that make people with disabilities more prone to becoming poor.
- Organismo
- Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities
- Tipo de documento
- Special Procedures' report
- Temas
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Poverty
- Personas afectadas
- Persons with disabilities
- Año
- 2015
- Fecha de adición
- 19 de ago. de 2019
Párrafo
The right of persons with disabilities to social protection 2015, para. 49
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- Contributory and non-contributory systems, as well as income generation programmes, can complement each other in various ways to reduce the coverage gap of persons with disabilities. Nevertheless, States must ensure an adequate level and quality of services in both contributory and non-contributory schemes, and their sustainability. States must also take steps, to the maximum of their available resources, to ensure that social protection systems cover all persons with disabilities on an equal basis with others. Finally, States must ensure the continuity of benefits and services when a person moves from a contributory scheme to a non-contributory one, and vice versa.
- Organismo
- Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities
- Tipo de documento
- Special Procedures' report
- Temas
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Personas afectadas
- Persons with disabilities
- Año
- 2015
- Fecha de adición
- 19 de ago. de 2019
Párrafo
The right of persons with disabilities to social protection 2015, para. 31
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- While the extra cost of disability varies greatly depending on the availability and financial accessibility of goods and services, researchers have calculated that it can amount to almost 50 per cent of an individual's income. A recent study on older persons with disabilities estimates that, on average, disability costs are approximately 65 per cent higher than the net weekly pre-disability household income. In addition, the economic cost of living with a disability includes foregone benefits or opportunity costs (e.g., lost income of individuals with disabilities or of family members who cannot work, or who work less, if the household includes one or more persons with disabilities), the impact of which depends on many factors, including the type of impairment, the household's socioeconomic status, the individual's work status and the policy context (e.g., the existence of disability benefits).
- Organismo
- Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities
- Tipo de documento
- Special Procedures' report
- Temas
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Personas afectadas
- Older persons
- Persons with disabilities
- Año
- 2015
- Fecha de adición
- 19 de ago. de 2019
Párrafo
The right of persons with disabilities to social protection 2015, para. 28
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- Poverty reduction programmes do not adequately include persons with disabilities. Research suggests that social protection programmes do not meet the needs of persons with disabilities. For example, a recent study in two developing countries reveals that, despite the significant poverty gap between persons with disabilities and the general population, social protection programmes often do not specifically include persons with disabilities or respond to their specific needs. This constitutes a missed opportunity, given that in the past decade most developing countries have implemented new poverty reduction programmes (including cash transfers and public employment schemes) that could have benefited persons with disabilities and supported their exit out of poverty.
- Organismo
- Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities
- Tipo de documento
- Special Procedures' report
- Temas
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Poverty
- Personas afectadas
- Persons with disabilities
- Año
- 2015
- Fecha de adición
- 19 de ago. de 2019
Párrafo
The right of persons with disabilities to social protection 2015, para. 7
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- Social protection programmes have the potential to directly affect the lives of persons with disabilities. Indeed, they can play a crucial role in reducing the consequences of sudden life-changing experiences (e.g., the loss of employment or a change in the family structure) and in crisis response, by contributing to alleviate the economic and social effects of economic downturns. They can also play a crucial role in alleviating and preventing poverty and vulnerability, promoting effective access to health care and other services, and foster social inclusion and participation.
- Organismo
- Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities
- Tipo de documento
- Special Procedures' report
- Temas
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Poverty
- Personas afectadas
- Persons with disabilities
- Año
- 2015
- Fecha de adición
- 19 de ago. de 2019
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