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services more accessible for people with disabilities;
d. Encouraging the media to make their information accessible to people with disabilities;
e. Agreeing to, and promoting the use of, sign language.
ARtIcle 22: Respect FoR pRIvAcy
1. No matter where people with disabilities live, no one can interfere in their private life,
enter their home, open their mail, bother their family, or harm their good name without a
good reason. People with disabilities have the right to be protected by the law from such
attacks.
2. Information about people with disabilities, their health, and rehabilitation is private and
protected.
ARtIcle 23: Respect FoR Home AnD tHe FAmIly
1. The countries will stop discrimination against people with disabilities when it comes to
marriage and family relations and make sure that:
a. People with disabilities have the same right as other people to marry and have a
family;
b. People with disabilities have the same rights as other people to have children and to
decide how many children to have and when to have them. They should get information
on reproduction and family planning and help to understand this information;
c. People with disabilities have the same right as everyone else to keep their fertility.
2. People with disabilities have the rights and responsibilities related to caring for or adopting
children, with the most important concern being what is best for the child. The countries
will give people with disabilities any help they need to raise their children.
3. Children with disabilities have the same rights as everyone else to a family life. To prevent
abuse, the countries will provide information, services, and support to children with
disabilities and their families.
4. Children must not be taken away from their parents against their will, unless it is best for
them and is done legally. A child cannot be separated from parents because of the parent’s
or the child’s disability.
5. If close family members cannot care for a child with a disability, the countries will look
for another relative or someone in the local community to care for the child.
ARtIcle 24: eDucAtIon
1. All people with disabilities have the right to education. The countries will make sure that
the entire education system includes people with disabilities, and that the educational
system works to:
a. develop everyone’s human potential, sense of dignity, and self worth, as well as
respect for human rights, freedoms, and diversity;
b. develop the personality and talents of people with disabilities to their fullest potential;
c. make it possible for people with disabilities to be involved in society.
2. To do this, the countries will make sure that:
a. People with disabilities are not kept out of education because of their disability, and
children with disabilities are not kept out of free and required primary or from sec-
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