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Draft Article 20: Personal Mobility

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• NGOs
  • European Disability Forum
  • Indian NGO Consultative Meeting
  • Landmine Survivors Network
  • World Blind Union

NGOs

European Disability Forum

Training referred to in paragraph d) should also cover other persons associated with rehabilitation and support work with people with disabilities.

If a disabled person needs to be accompanied by a personal assistant in using public transport, the personal assistant should travel free of charge. This should be specified in paragraph e).

Indian NGO Consultative Meeting

The participants felt that the Article 20 on Personal Mobility in its present shape is weak and vague and it doesn’t address the legal issue involved, therefore Government of India and the Members of the Ad hoc Committee may wish to recast this article.

Landmine Survivors Network

As indicated in Footnote 72, Draft Article 20 is intended to be distinguished from the broader right to liberty of movement, which is understood to mean the right of individuals to move freely within the borders of their state, as well as to leave and return to it, subject only to restrictions necessary to protect interests such as national security, public safety, health, and the prevention of crime. (Cf. International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Article 12; Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, Articles 2-4) Given that issues of liberty of movement in the traditional sense are not addressed in Draft Article 20, it would therefore seem appropriate that an additional article be included to more fully elaborate the right to liberty of movement as it relates to people with disabilities.

In many respects, Draft Article 20 relates to the provision of support services as understood in Rule 4 of the UN Standard Rules, though Draft Article 20 is limited in scope to support services related to mobility. The Ad Hoc Committee may wish to consider the inclusion of a specific article related to support services.

World Blind Union

Article 19 and 20 must be re-written and merged together. There is some overlapping.

There is a need to define the word "mobility" because it is not clear whether it is only relevant for mobility impaired persons or if it covers the need for assistive devices for all kind of PWD:s. Mobility could be defined in Article 3, under Definition.

The Article touches on the subject of rehabilitation but do not reach out to the subject.

Rehabilitation including CBR should rather be included in a new article, which also should merge accessibility and mobility together. Health should be separated from rehabilitation. CBR could be defined under Article 3, Definition.

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