Barbados must work on disability-sensitive training for educators, employers and the workforce while improving accessibility in both public and private health and educational institutions.
These were part of the findings contained in the draft of the inaugural United Nations (UN) report on the island’s disabled community, presented yesterday by Professor Dwayne Devonish.
“Barbados is currently undergoing constitutional reform. Since moving to a republic, there was a clear understanding that Barbados has to disconnect from its former colonial power completely. Part of that mandate required not just the renewal, but the complete overhaul of our national Constitution.
“Given that the Constitution is at the heart of the rights and freedoms of all people, it is important that one critical amendment to that Constitution is the recognition of persons with disabilities. Coincidentally, with constitutional reform, we have advanced on a very comprehensive bill, a landmark legislation providing comprehensive legal protections for disability rights across this country,” he said.
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