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Greetings Everyone:

Here (click on the above Link)  is a Report submitted to the United Nations. during the past two weeks, while the Fifth Session was meeting.  Points i - iii seem to echo concerns here on the human rights of persons with pain just as across all disabilities - including negative prejudices, lack of access to services and information; what think you about assertions of dependency and passivity resulting from polices, prejudices, and "blocks?" Quite possibly, posts here in this ongoing discussion online have related to these points.

Best wishes, LDMF.

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The major problems of the subregion involving the situation of persons with disabilities have been identified, as follows:

(i) negative prejudices against persons with disabilities;

(ii) very high levels of illiteracy stemming from poverty and the shortage of social, education and health services as well as lack of physical access to such services and to information in general;

(iii) a strong mentality of dependency and passivity among persons with disabilities resulting not only from past policies but also from social and cultural prejudices and psychological blocks.

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Source:

Ad Hoc Committee on a Comprehensive and Integral International Convention on Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities Fifth session, New York, 24 January-3 February 2005 - Note verbale dated 1 February 2005 from the Permanent Mission of Burkina Faso to the United Nations addressed to the Secretariat.

Note: Burkina Vaso is an African nation-state surrounded by six other nation states.