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UNITED NATIONS ENABLED--- MARCHNG TOWARDS A NEW INTERNATIONAL MULTICULTURAL HUMAN RIGHTS ORDER WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO WORK AND EMPLOYMENT OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITY
By Sanjay S. Jain*
Although we are at the fag end of completing the first decade of the new millennium, there is no end to the plight and ignominious treatment of Persons with disabilities all over the world. Even at present persons with disabilities (hereinafter ‘PWDs’) are perceived as objects of charity, pity and sympathy. Particularly from the sphere of employment they are completely excluded and isolated by the so called able bodied, because they are perceived to be unproductive and untalented. But is it true? Upon a little introspection, the answer would be clear no. PWDs are equal human beings and as members of civil society expect to play a given role to the best of their capacity and reach. Fortunately at normative level, their aspiration to be equal citizens and worthy of Basic human rights has been finally materialized by UN with the adoption and enforcement of Convention on rights of Persons with disabilities.(CRPD). A close look at the drafting process of this convention also brings home the fact that UN has paid a sufficient heed to the contemporary clarion call of disability rights movement, “nothing about us without us” by giving ample representation to the disability sector of civil society. Indeed the efforts of the UN signifies transformation in the status of PWDs and it is a movement towards recognizing them as subjects rather than the objects of the Human rights by recognizing their diversity and by allowing them to celebrate the same at least on the normative plane. Therefore, I call this movement of UN as a march towards evolving a new International Multicultural Human rights order for PWDs. In this paper an attempt is made to critically analyze employment rights of persons with disabilities mainly by looking in to the work done within United
By Sanjay S. Jain*
Although we are at the fag end of completing the first decade of the new millennium, there is no end to the plight and ignominious treatment of Persons with disabilities all over the world. Even at present persons with disabilities (hereinafter ‘PWDs’) are perceived as objects of charity, pity and sympathy. Particularly from the sphere of employment they are completely excluded and isolated by the so called able bodied, because they are perceived to be unproductive and untalented. But is it true? Upon a little introspection, the answer would be clear no. PWDs are equal human beings and as members of civil society expect to play a given role to the best of their capacity and reach. Fortunately at normative level, their aspiration to be equal citizens and worthy of Basic human rights has been finally materialized by UN with the adoption and enforcement of Convention on rights of Persons with disabilities.(CRPD). A close look at the drafting process of this convention also brings home the fact that UN has paid a sufficient heed to the contemporary clarion call of disability rights movement, “nothing about us without us” by giving ample representation to the disability sector of civil society. Indeed the efforts of the UN signifies transformation in the status of PWDs and it is a movement towards recognizing them as subjects rather than the objects of the Human rights by recognizing their diversity and by allowing them to celebrate the same at least on the normative plane. Therefore, I call this movement of UN as a march towards evolving a new International Multicultural Human rights order for PWDs. In this paper an attempt is made to critically analyze employment rights of persons with disabilities mainly by looking in to the work done within United