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TAJIKISTAN - DISABLED GIRLS'
EXCLUSION & DISCRIMINATION
As of December 12, 2013,
Tajikistan HAS NOT ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of
Persons with Disabilities.
CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF PERSONS
WITH DISABILITIES: http://www.un.org/disabilities/convention/conventionfull.shtml
Article 7 -
Children with disabilities
1. States Parties shall take all necessary measures to ensure the full
enjoyment by children with disabilities of all human rights and fundamental
freedoms on an equal basis with other children.
2. In all actions concerning children with disabilities, the best interests of
the child shall be a primary consideration.
3. States Parties shall ensure that children with disabilities have the right
to express their views freely on all matters affecting them, their views being
given due weight in accordance with their age and maturity, on an equal basis
with other children, and to be provided with disability and age-appropriate
assistance to realize that right.
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TAJIKISTAN ACCESSION TO THE UN
CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD:
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Tajikistan |
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26
Oct 1993 a |
UN CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF THE
CHILD
Article 23
1. States
Parties recognize that a mentally or physically disabled child should enjoy a
full and decent life, in conditions which ensure dignity, promote self-reliance
and facilitate the child's active participation in the community.
2. States
Parties recognize the right of the disabled child to special care and shall
encourage and ensure the extension, subject to available resources, to the
eligible child and those responsible for his or her care, of assistance for
which application is made and which is appropriate to the child's condition and
to the circumstances of the parents or others caring for the child.
3.
Recognizing the special needs of a disabled child, assistance extended in
accordance with paragraph 2 of the present article shall be provided free of
charge, whenever possible, taking into account the financial resources of the
parents or others caring for the child, and shall be designed to ensure that
the disabled child has effective access to and receives education, training,
health care services, rehabilitation services, preparation for employment and
recreation opportunities in a manner conducive to the child's achieving the
fullest possible social integration and individual development, including his
or her cultural and spiritual development
4. States
Parties shall promote, in the spirit of international cooperation, the exchange
of appropriate information in the field of preventive health care and of
medical, psychological and functional treatment of disabled children, including
dissemination of and access to information concerning methods of
rehabilitation, education and vocational services, with the aim of enabling
States Parties to improve their capabilities and skills and to widen their
experience in these areas. In this regard, particular account shall be taken of
the needs of developing countries.
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Institute for War & Peace
Reporting
DISABLED GIRLS EXCLUDED IN
TAJIKISTAN
By Zarina Ergasheva - Central Asia
Radio - 31 Oct 2012
When Nigina Ikromova goes out and
about in her wheelchair in the Tajik capital Dushanbe, she is irritated by the
reactions she gets from people in the street.
“They just
see the disability and offer me one somoni or five somonis [20 cents or one US
dollar],” she said. “When you don’t need it, it’s annoying. I tell them I don’t
need their money.”
Ikromova has
a university degree, and now works with disabled people and their families.
She is the
exception, though. Experts say women with disabilities in Tajikistan have
limited opportunities because of widespread social prejudices, and have a much
tougher time than their male counterparts.
“When a girl
is born with a disability, they don’t even show her to anyone, they don’t say
anything. Generally only the immediate relatives know about it,” Galina
Yunusova of the Ishtirok NGO said. “She ends up shut away at home. She doesn’t
go anywhere or see anyone, and just does household chores. So she has no chance
of marrying… let alone getting an education.”
As well as
concerns about disabled girls in particular, Tajikistan has a long way to go in
terms of providing disability access in public spaces, and shifting the focus
of policy to keeping disabled children with their families rather than placing
them in institutions. Experts say addressing these challenges will become
easier if Tajikistan ratifies the United Nations Convention on the Rights of
Persons with Disabilities.
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Link to Full 2-Page Document on
Children/Girls with Disabilities in Tajikistan:
