What are some ways to support people with disability to fulfill their rights?
It is important to recognize that Persons with disabilities have the same rights as any other person. Supporting Persons with Disabilities (PwDs) to fulfill their rights involves a combination of removing physical and social barriers, fostering independence, ensuring legal protection, and promoting inclusion in all aspects of life. Key approaches include adopting a "person-first" mindset, providing accessible infrastructure, ensuring inclusive education, and fostering economic independence through vocational training and fair employment. It is important to apply the concept of reasonable accommodation as “necessary and appropriate modification and adjustments not imposing a disproportionate or undue burden, where needed in a particular case, to ensure to persons with disabilities the enjoyment or exercise on an equal basis with others of all human rights and fundamental freedoms” You can support them by including them in community events and engaging them in decision making. “Nothing about us without us” is the most apt principle to engage with PWDs.