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Guidelines on access to social justice for people with disabilities
September 3 , 2020
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- The United Nations has released its first-ever guidelines on access to social justice for people with disabilities to make it easier for them to access justice systems around the world.
- The guidelines outline a set of 10 principles and detail the steps for implementation.
- The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities was adopted in 2007 as the first major instrument of human rights in the 21st century.
- Persons with Disabilities are those who have long-term physical, mental, intellectual or sensory impairments.
- As per statistics maintained by the UN, in India 2.4 per cent of males are disabled and two per cent of females from all age groups are disabled.
- In comparison, the disability prevalence in the US is 12.9% among females and 12.7% among males.
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