Rights of disabled people General Assembly

Running Head: DISABILITY LAW
Disability Law
Name of the Student
Name of the University
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The declaration on the Rights of disabled people was a declaration of the General
Assembly of the United Nations which is made on 9th of December 1975. As the resolution of the
assembly, it forms such a framework that can be drawn on for the domestic and the international
law. It includes a lengthy preamble along with thirteen proclamations which promote the rights
of disabled people broadly. Also, in the year 2007, the world had adopted the Conventions on the
Rights of Persons with Disabilities (Foster et al., 2016). One such law is the National Disability
Insurance Scheme Act of 2013. The National Disability Scheme is the single and national
scheme which funds the reasonable support in order to help people having the disability reach all
of their goals (Douglas & Bigby, 2020). It further supports the careers of the disabled people.
Notably, the NDIS works with many people and has identified that there are different people
having different needs. It further provides people the choice of supporting their need in order to
live the life wanted by them. This paper will discuss this particular law in regard with the
disabled people giving special focus on Australia.
People having disabilities are sometimes excluded from the mainstream society and then
denied of their basic human rights. This discrimination against people with disabilities usually
takes different forms that range from the invidious discrimination as the denial of the
opportunities related to education, isolation, segregation due to the imposition of the social and
the physical barriers. The impacts of the discrimination founded on disability have been quite
severe in the fields as employment, education, transport, housing, the cultural life along with the
access to the public places and the services (Goggin et al., 2019). This might produce distinction,
restriction, exclusion, denial of reasonable accommodation based on disability which nullifies
and then impairs effectively the enjoyment, the recognition and the exercise of people’ rights
with the disabilities.

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In spite of this progress regarding the legislation over the past years, there have been
many violations of the human rights of disabled people that have not been addressed
systematically in the whole society. Most of the disability policies and legislation are founded on
the assumption that people having disability are not able to exercise the rights of non-disabled
people. As a consequence, the situations of people having disability are often addressed
regarding the social services and the rehabilitation (Lea et al., 2018). There is a need existing for
the comprehensive legislation in order to ensure that the rights of the disabled people in terms of
the civil, the political, the cultural, the social and the economic. There are some appropriate
measures which are required in order to address the discrimination that is existing, and
promotion of the scopes for people having disabilities in order to participate based on equality in
the social development and social life.
Notably, there are some cultural and social barriers serving to deter the full participation
of people having disability. There are some discriminatory practices which are against people
with disability resulting in cultural laws being institutionalized by the law. Also, the change in
the disability concepts and perception will consist of change in the values along with the
enhanced understanding at all of the levels of the society focusing on the cultural and the social
norms. This can perpetuate an inappropriate and erroneous myths regarding disability. There is
one of the most dominant features about legal thinking in the recent century which has been the
identification of the law in the form of a tool being the social change. The legislation is not the
way of social progress but it represents the most powerful vehicles of the progress, the change
and the social development. Also, the legislation of the country is basic in terms of promoting all
of the people’ rights with disabilities. The importance and then increasing roles of the global law
in the promotion of the rights of people with disabilities is identified by the domestic legislation,