Options to ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and of its Optional Protocol[EN]
Optiuni de ratificare a Convenţiei ONU cu privire la drepturile personelor cu disabilităţi şi a Protocolului adiţional la convenţie[RO]
Варианты ратификации Конвенции ООН о правах инвалидов и факультативного протокола к ней[RU]
Options to ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and of its Optional Protocol
The objective of the study is to present to the Government recommendations
and practical options for the ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights
of Persons with Disabilities and of its Optional Protocol. The study recommends
ratification both of the Convention and of the Optional Protocol, mainly
because this international document may further facilitate the promotion of the
rights of persons with disabilities nationwide.
The study concludes that the policies on persons with disabilities
require a significant change to transform into policies that promote social
inclusion and employment, while the current policy has a compensating nature,
dominated by a mainly medical approach. This important change is addressed in
the draft of a specific strategy on persons with disabilities, developed and
proposed by the Ministry of Social Protection, Family and Child (MSPFC). This
transformation can provide medium- and long-term sustainable result of
manifestation of the disabled.
An entire set of recommendations relate to improving the institutional
framework, strengthening the MSPFC, creating the inter-ministry commission for
the coordination of reforms in the field, improving the system of policy
development, monitoring and coordinating policy implementation. Under the
institutional aspect, it is recommended to establish a framework for preventing
discrimination and to authorize a specialized Parliamentary Advocate to closely
monitor the rights of persons with disabilities. A number of recommendations
relate to changing definitions from the concept of invalidity to that of
disability and to introducing the concepts of integration into society and
employment.
Measures for raising the awareness of the public and of decision makers
are recommended as priority actions. They are followed by a number of specific
recommendations for each article of the Convention. The recommendations include
changes of the legislation, creation of services and use of resources existing
in the society, and modification of policies and approaches.
