in English - Handicap International

It is important to distinguish the fact that although individuals have general responsibilities
to their community, and at a minimum should respect the human
rights of others, it is the State that is obligated to guarantee human rights.
b. When are the rights of people with disabilities being violated?
- When the State does not generate the necessary socio-cultural conditions to
eliminate undervaluing, discrimination, and exclusion.
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- When the State continues creating barriers to physical access and to communication
and information, and allows private institutions providing public services
to also create such barriers.
- When the State generates regulations and norms that recognize the rights of
people with disabilities, but does not design plans, programs, policies, projects
and actions, or does so only in a very limited manner, so that disabled people
can only participate marginally in development, and not as full citizens.
Three examples of rights violations of people with disabilities:
- For people with motor and sensory disabilities, the right to liberty of movement—
something that is not restricted for people in general in any of our cities—is restricted
and discriminates against them. People with such disabilities need adequate
and secure ramps, and urban settings that are free of obstacles and barriers in
order to mobilize freely. Given that we are referring to
Right to personal mobility
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