UN Policy Paper on Disability

The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) promotes “disability inclusion” referring to the meaningful participation of persons with disabilities in society on an equal basis with others, as well as development of disability-specific policies and programmes. The objective is to create an enabling environment promoting equal rights and participation for persons with disabilities. In order to remove the barriers to participation and ensure equal rights and equal opportunities, the Government of Ukraine (GoU) is recommended to promote the social inclusion of persons with disabilities by removing and mitigating political, cultural, administrative, environmental, physical, communication, policy and attitudinal barriers. To ensure the cohesion of the whole society, including persons with disabilities, policy interventions should be taken on several fronts and should have substantive and measurable outcomes, foreseeing that social inclusion must be both multidimensional and transformative.