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Nicaragua 1986 Yes Yes
Panama 1979 Yes Yes
Suriname 2008 No Unknown
Total 10 Yes (83%)
Based on 12 respondents
11 Yes (92%)
7.2.5 Please list some of the areas in which your association has adopted a policy statement.
Costa Rica
Cuba
Country Please list some of the areas in which your association has adopted a policy statement.
Dominican Republic
• Education
• Human Rights for Deaf People
• Promotion and Defence of Sign Language
• Recognition of Costa Rican Sign Language (LESCO)
• Sports and Social Arenas
With the goal of improving the well-being and integration of people with disabilities, a plan has been
set in action in the areas of education, culture, recreation, health and employment. This plan of
action outlines the tasks that ministries and institutions in Cuba must do to work with people with
disabilities.
• To encourage the Deaf community in social and cultural development
• To motivate Deaf people in educational development, life styles and sport
• To teach Deaf people about responsibilities and rights of members of society
El Salvador • Area of interpretation
Guyana
Haiti
Honduras
Mexico
Nicaragua
• Awareness
• Advocacy
• Education
• To liaise regularly with parents and families of people who have hearing problems
• To promote continuing education about sign language and prevention of Deafness
• To ensure access to the outside world by promoting awareness
• To promote research of sign language in Haiti
• To gather together necessary equipment and facility requirements
• To support the socio-psycho-cultural development of children, youth and adults who have a
hearing problem
• To assume responsibility, where necessary, to support children, youth and adults with hearing
problems in successful living
• To inform Deaf people, via a daily newspaper, of their rights and the organisations and services
available to help them cope with their handicap
• To defend the psychosocial and medical rights of Deaf people because, no matter the
sophistication of assistive equipment, they will always be handicapped
• To support psychosocial integration and inclusion of Deaf people in the workforce, in particular in
professional and academic environments
• To represent Deaf people, both users of sign language and oral Deaf, to public authorities
• To promote the recognition of sign language in the Haitian Constitution; and to continue to
promote sign language even after its recognition
• To lobby for 100% access to televised programmes via sign language and subtitling
• To encourage the elimination of illiteracy through the use of new communication technologies for
Deaf people, providing access through sign language, in order to improve their living conditions
• Human Rights
• Rights of Deaf People
• Rights to Education, Employment and Vocational Training
• Inclusive Education, Interpreting Service, Equal Opportunity
Congress, including the president, co-operate with the National Council for People with Disabilities
and also with the National Council for the Prevention of Discrimination. Many government institutions
know of FEMESOR. The State System for the Full Development of the Family (DIF) also works with us.
Political involvement in Parliament, and national and local government (Congress, Senate) as well as
Non-Governmental Organisations for information and awareness of the human rights of Deaf people in
communication access and interpreting services.
Please note: Subsequently it was discovered that the word ‘policy’ was translated into Spanish incorrectly; this may have
confused some respondents.
The Project was under the auspices of the Swedish National Association of the Deaf (SDR) and the World Federation of the Deaf (WFD), Page No 39
and funded by the Swedish Agency for International Development Cooperation (Sida) and Swedish Organisations’ of Disabled Persons
International Aid Association (Shia).