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We beg<strong>in</strong> with the follow<strong>in</strong>g:<br />

• A coalition of disabled persons’ organizations is promot<strong>in</strong>g political<br />

advocacy work <strong>in</strong> the country. There is a law currently on the<br />

books that requires all public transportation to be accessible to all<br />

people (<strong>in</strong>clud<strong>in</strong>g people with reduced mobility) with<strong>in</strong> ten years of<br />

the law’s passage. The law has now been <strong>in</strong> force for 10 years and it<br />

has been backed up by the nation’s ratification of the Convention on<br />

the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which is now the law of the land.<br />

• Until now, there have been very few accessible buses available,<br />

and the Transport M<strong>in</strong>istry’s Public Transportation Council, which<br />

is responsible for <strong>in</strong>sur<strong>in</strong>g compliance with this law, has done noth<strong>in</strong>g<br />

to obligate public transportation companies to acquire and make accessible<br />

buses available.<br />

• The political advocacy work is aimed at pressur<strong>in</strong>g the Public<br />

Transportation Council to br<strong>in</strong>g the transport companies <strong>in</strong>to l<strong>in</strong>e (suspend<strong>in</strong>g<br />

permits or concessions if they do not comply with the law),<br />

to more effectively supervise them, and to set def<strong>in</strong>itive deadl<strong>in</strong>es by<br />

which all public transportation units must be accessible.<br />

- Preparatory task plan<br />

The coalition promot<strong>in</strong>g this advocacy plan for accessible transportation<br />

realizes that it needs to take several steps before the strategies can<br />

be implemented.<br />

Here is the plan for their preparatory work:<br />

Preparatory tasks for the political advocacy plan for accessible public<br />

transportation<br />

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