- Togo : La joie des enfants handicapés en ces périodes de fête
- ENDA Santé / une journée d’échanges dans le cadre de l’initiative Fonds d’innovation et d’impulsion (F2I)
- Appel à Manifestation d’Intérêt
- Association Enfant Surdité Avenir recrute une Secrétaire Comptable
- Sport paralympique : les acteurs togolais outillés sur la bonne gouvernance sportive
- Journée internationale de la femme sourde 2021
- Air Côte d’Ivoire / Une agence hostile aux personnes handicapées
- Violation flagrante de l’article 20 de la CDPH par Air Côte d’Ivoire
- Produire les statistiques sur le handicap.
- Togo/Terrorisme : les personnes handicapées et leur contribution
- Togo/Améliorer la qualité de services de réadaptation.
- L’AFD et le groupe VYV soutiennent le projet DéfiSens-AO en Afrique de l’Ouest
- Togo : la FETAPH donne le ton au recensement des personnes handicapées
- Togo : 5ème RGPH, La FETAPH œuvre pour que « personne ne soit laissé de côté »
- Togo : Actualité des OPH : l’Association Togolaise des personnes Aveugles (ATA) avait tenu son assemblée générale ordinaire
- 4 janvier 2022 : célébration de la journée mondiale de l’écriture braille dans un contexte particulier de la pandémie liée au Coronavirus
- Togo : activité des OPH, le comité de suivi du projet ADP a tenu sa Deuxième réunion ordinaire annuelle
- Yatma Fall élu président de la fédération ouest africaine des personnes handicapées
- TOGO/Savanes : APHMOTO apporte son appui accompagnement aux enfants parrainés par YovoTogo
- Santé : réflexion sur les besoins de soins des personnes handicapées dans le contexte du coronavirus
Textes juridiques
Nigeria Passes Disability Rights Law and offers Hope of Inclusion, Improved Access
On January 23, Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari signed into law the Discrimination Against Persons with Disabilities (Prohibition) Act, 2018, following 9 years of relentless advocacy by disability rights groups and activists.
According to the World Health Organization’s 2011 World Disability Report, about 15 percent of Nigeria’s population, or at least 25 million people, have a disability. Many of them face a number of human rights abuses including stigma, discrimination, violence, and lack of access to healthcare, housing, and education.
Nigeria ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities (CRPD) in 2007 and its Optional Protocol in 2010. Since then, civil society groups and people with disabilities have called on the government to put it into practice. In 2011 and 2015, the National Assembly passed the Discrimination Against Persons with Disabilities (Prohibition) Bill 2009, but former President Goodluck Jonathan declined to sign it into law.
The bill for the new law was passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate joint committee in November 2016, but was not sent to Buhari for his signature until December 2018.
On January 17, Buhari denied on national television that he had received the bill. Hundreds of people protested, and barely five days later, he signed the bill into law.
The law prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability and imposes sanctions including fines and prison sentences on those who contravene it. It also stipulates a five-year transitional period for modifying public buildings, structures, and automobiles to make them accessible and usable for people with disabilities.
The law will also establish a National Commission for Persons with Disabilities, responsible for ensuring that people with disabilities have access to housing, education, and healthcare. The Commission will be empowered to receive complaints of rights violations and support victims to seek legal redress amongst other duties.
The enactment of the Discrimination Against Persons with Disabilities (Prohibition) Act is only a first step in the fulfillment of Nigeria’s obligations under the CRPD. Authorities should now put effective measures in place for its full implementation to ensure equal treatment and participation of people with disabilities across Nigeria.
