News on the topic: rights of persons with disabilities
03.04.2014 Disabled rights NGO launches monitoring of barrier-free environment ahead of Hockey World Champ
The Office of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities invites volunteers to monitor barrier-free environment of facilities constructed for the forthcoming Ice Hockey World Championship in Minsk.
28.02.2014 Possibilities of signing and ratification of UN Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities discussed at highest level
These issues were raised at the seminar "The system of social protection of disabled persons in the Republic of Belarus: State and prospects for development. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities", organized by the Standing Committee of Education, Science, Culture and Social Development of the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly, the Standing Committee on Labor and Social Issues of the House of Representatives, as well as the United Nations Office in the Republic of Belarus.
21.02.2014 Why is higher education inaccessible to the majority of people with disabilities?
Only 10 percent of people with disabilities in Belarus have higher education. What is preventing these people from getting higher education and how to overcome these barriers?
22.12.2013 Human rights defenders keep criticizing accessibility in Salihorsk
The administration of the Salihorsk-based bus depot No. 1 turned down a request of local human rights activist Aliaksei Valabuyeu, who demanded to bring the organization of public transport and information on its schedule in line with the objective needs of people with disabilities.
03.12.2013 Specialists of the Office for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities have prepared proposals on amendments to the Education Code
There is a possibility that the next year the Education Code will be amended. It will be done after holding the monitoring based on the existing problems in this sphere.
30.11.2013 Babruisk: Disabled Persons’ Day events to be held in inaccessible building (photo)
A charity concert scheduled for December 3 to mark the United Nations' International Day of Persons with Disabilities will once again be held at Babruisk’s Palace of Arts. Meanwhile, this building is a real impregnable fortress for wheelchair users. They will have to overcome a number of steps to reach the entrance, and even more steps to get to the second floor where the auditorium is located.
30.10.2013 Salihorsk human rights defenders urge local officials to report on accessibility program
Representatives of the Belarusian Helsinki Committee in Salihorsk sent a letter to local authorities urging them to provide a report on the implementation of the program for the development of a barrier-free environment in the town’s educational institutions.
20.05.2013 Siarhei Drazdouski: It is impossible to achieve accessibility for people with disabilities without removing the barriers in people’s minds
A “Week of Accessibility” is held in Belarus for the first time between 17 and 21 May, organized by the Educational and Human Rights Institution “Office for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.”
14.03.2013 Insurmountable "barrier-free space"
The issue of the improvement of the barrier-free environment in Babruisk is a daily one for wheelchair disabled.
19.02.2013 Belarusian health resorts lack places for disabled children
This was reported to the BelaPAN news agency by Mikalai Mazur, head of the National Center for Health Improvement and Sanatorium Treatment of Population.
23.11.2012 Brest: visually impaired fight for equality
Mrs. Iryna Yurenia, chair of the Brest regional organization "BelTIZ", believes that the rehabilitation of the visually impaired is a complex problem of the entire society, so the state and public institutions should pay more attention to the issue, as the problem affects 3,000 people in Brest alone.
18.10.2012 Slutsk activists campaign for barrier-free pedestrian crossings
The volunteers of the civil campaign “Nash Dom” (“Our House”) have collected more than three hundred signatures of the residents of Slutsk (Minsk region) to urge the executive committee and the council of deputies to bring the height of curbs in compliance with building codes.
13.12.2011 Disabled man goes on hunger-strike to protest against death penalty
He also refused to take medicines. Valery Hancharenka demands to improve treatment conditions for TB patients.
11.07.2011 Quiet discrimination
“There are no colleges or lyceums in Belarus that provide sufficient conditions for the study of disabled people together with all others within the framework of an integrated system,” states human rights defender Alena Tankachova.
06.06.2011 Mahiliou: disabled have no chance to enter new buildings
For instance, accoridng to information of Valery Tsimakin, a member of the Pinsk organization of wheelchair disabled, they are unable to enter the main office of Belahraprambank. The organization conducted monitoring concerning the creation of the barrierless environment in the city and registered many violations of the Belarusian legislation in this sphere.
