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awareness and the use of appropriate augmentativeand alternative modes, means and formats ofcommunication, educational techniques and materialsto support persons with disabilities.5. States parties shall ensure that persons withdisabilities are able to access general tertiaryeducation, vocational training, adult education andlifelong learning without discrimination and on anequal basis with others. To this end, States partiesshall ensure that reasonable accommodation isprovided to persons with disabilities.Article 25HealthStates parties recognize that persons with disabilitieshave the right to the enjoyment of the highestattainable standard of health without discriminationon the basis of disability. States parties shall take allappropriate measures to ensure access for personswith disabilities to health services that are gendersensitive,including health-related rehabilitation. Inparticular, States parties shall:(a) Provide persons with disabilities with the samerange, quality and standard of free or affordablehealth care and programmes as provided toother persons, including in the area of sexual andreproductive health and population-based publichealth programmes;(b) Provide those health services needed bypersons with disabilities specifically because oftheir disabilities, including early identification andintervention as appropriate, and services designedto minimize and prevent further disabilities, includingamong children and older persons;(c) Provide these health services as close as possibleto people’s own communities, including in rural areas;(d) Require health professionals to provide care of thesame quality to persons with disabilities as to others,including on the basis of free and informed consentby, inter alia, raising awareness of the humanrights, dignity, autonomy and needs of persons withdisabilities through training and the promulgation ofethical standards for public and private health care;(e) Prohibit discrimination against persons withdisabilities in the provision of health insurance, andlife insurance where such insurance is permitted bynational law, which shall be provided in a fair andreasonable manner;(f) Prevent discriminatory denial of health care orhealth services or food and fluids on the basis ofdisability.Article 26Habilitation and rehabilitation1. States parties shall take effective and appropriatemeasures, including through peer support, to enablepersons with disabilities to attain and maintainmaximum independence, full physical, mental,social and vocational ability, and full inclusion andparticipation in all aspects of life. To that end,States parties shall organize, strengthen and extendcomprehensive habilitation and rehabilitation servicesand programmes, particularly in the areas of health,employment, education and social services, in such away that these services and programmes:(a) Begin at the earliest possible stage, and are basedon the multidisciplinary assessment of individualneeds and strengths;(b) Support participation and inclusion in thecommunity and all aspects of society, are voluntary,and are available to persons with disabilities as closeas possible to their own communities, including inrural areas.2. States parties shall promote the developmentof initial and continuing training for professionalsand staff working in habilitation and rehabilitationservices.3. States parties shall promote the availability,knowledge and use of assistive devices andtechnologies, designed for persons with disabilities,as they relate to habilitation and rehabilitation.Article 27Work and employment1. States parties recognize the right of persons withdisabilities to work, on an equal basis with others;this includes the right to the opportunity to gain aliving by work freely chosen or accepted in a labourmarket and work environment that is open, inclusiveand accessible to persons with disabilities. Statesparties shall safeguard and promote the realization ofthe right to work, including for those who acquire adisability during the course of employment, by takingappropriate steps, including through legislation, to,inter alia:(a) Prohibit discrimination on the basis of disabilitywith regard to all matters concerning all forms ofemployment, including conditions of recruitment,hiring and employment, continuance of employment,career advancement and safe and healthy workingconditions;59 Promoting the Rights of Children with Disabilities Innocenti Digest No. 13
(b) Protect the rights of persons with disabilities, onan equal basis with others, to just and favourableconditions of work, including equal opportunities andequal remuneration for work of equal value, safe andhealthy working conditions, including protection fromharassment, and the redress of grievances;(c) Ensure that persons with disabilities are able toexercise their labour and trade union rights on anequal basis with others;(d) Enable persons with disabilities to have effectiveaccess to general technical and vocational guidanceprogrammes, placement services and vocational andcontinuing training;(e) Promote employment opportunities and careeradvancement for persons with disabilities in thelabour market, as well as assistance in finding,obtaining, maintaining and returning to employment;(f) Promote opportunities for self-employment,entrepreneurship, the development of cooperativesand starting one’s own business;(g) Employ persons with disabilities in the publicsector;(h) Promote the employment of persons withdisabilities in the private sector through appropriatepolicies and measures, which may include affirmativeaction programmes, incentives and other measures;(i) Ensure that reasonable accommodation is providedto persons with disabilities in the workplace;(j) Promote the acquisition by persons with disabilitiesof work experience in the open labour market;(k) Promote vocational and professional rehabilitation,job retention and return-to-work programmes forpersons with disabilities.2. States parties shall ensure that persons withdisabilities are not held in slavery or in servitude, andare protected, on an equal basis with others, fromforced or compulsory labour.Article 28Adequate standard of living and social protection1. States parties recognize the right of persons withdisabilities to an adequate standard of living forthemselves and their families, including adequatefood, clothing and housing, and to the continuousimprovement of living conditions, and shall takeappropriate steps to safeguard and promote therealization of this right without discrimination on thebasis of disability.2. States parties recognize the right of persons withdisabilities to social protection and to the enjoymentof that right without discrimination on the basisof disability, and shall take appropriate steps tosafeguard and promote the realization of this right,including measures:(a) To ensure equal access by persons withdisabilities to clean water services, and to ensureaccess to appropriate and affordable services,devices and other assistance for disability-relatedneeds;(b) To ensure access by persons with disabilities,in particular women and girls with disabilities andolder persons with disabilities, to social protectionprogrammes and poverty reduction programmes;(c) To ensure access by persons with disabilitiesand their families living in situations of poverty toassistance from the State with disability-relatedexpenses, including adequate training, counselling,financial assistance and respite care;(d) To ensure access by persons with disabilities topublic housing programmes;(e) To ensure equal access by persons withdisabilities to retirement benefits and programmes.Article 29Participation in political and public lifeStates parties shall guarantee to persons withdisabilities political rights and the opportunity toenjoy them on an equal basis with others, and shallundertake to:(a) Ensure that persons with disabilities caneffectively and fully participate in political and publiclife on an equal basis with others, directly or throughfreely chosen representatives, including the right andopportunity for persons with disabilities to vote andbe elected, inter alia, by:(i) Ensuring that voting procedures, facilities andmaterials are appropriate, accessible and easy tounderstand and use;(ii) Protecting the right of persons with disabilitiesto vote by secret ballot in elections and publicreferendums without intimidation, and to stand forelections, to effectively hold office and performall public functions at all levels of government,facilitating the use of assistive and new technologieswhere appropriate;(iii) Guaranteeing the free expression of the willof persons with disabilities as electors and to thisend, where necessary, at their request, allowingassistance in voting by a person of their own choice;Innocenti Digest No. 13Promoting the Rights of Children with Disabilities60
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