Rights of the Disabled : Perspective Legal Protection and Issues

Awadhesh Kumar Singh

Published by Serials Pub, New Delhi, 2008

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Contents Preface. 1. Employment opportunities for the persons with disabilities in India issues and challenges/M. Sugirtha and K. Madeswaran. 2. Educational rights of children with special abilities some socio legal policies and schemes/Rattan Singh and Mamta Mehmi. 3. Safeguarding the rights of the disabled persons/Aparajita Baruah. 4. Development of international standards on rights of disabled person/B.S. Patil. 5. Environmental pollution and disability/M. Rani (Muthusamy). 6. The need and rights of persons with disabilities/Shamim Akhtar and Iftikhar Ali. 7. Economic rights and the differently abled people/P. Arunachalam and Duraipandi Mavoothu. 8. HR Initiatives for differently abled by Indian corporates/Duraipandi Mavoothu P.R. Poduval and P. Arunachalam. 9. The socio economic status and welfare measures for disabled a case study of Gulbarga District/Atik ur Rahaman S.M. and Siddappa S. Pattedar. 10. Empowering the disabled Indian perspective/Mamta Rao. 11. Is old age is a disability a case study of elderly people in slum areas of Gulbarga city/Basalingamma S. Halemani and Maitradevi Shivaraya. 12. Disability and human rights A case study of AIDS patients and their disability in enjoying human rights/Nagaratna Sachidanandha and N.S. Sreenivasulu. 13. Women and disability significance of legal protection for their empowerment/Muzamil Jan. 14. Gender poverty and disability in Kenya/Tabitha W. Kiriti Nganga and Siddhartha Sarkar. 15. Mapping the efforts of the Government and NGOs on the issue of disability in India/Vishwas Patel and Divya Nigam. 16. Disability and the law in India/Varinder Singh and Rachna Arora. 17. Human rights and mentally disabled/Sowmya M.S. 18. Disability and gender in a socio economic perspective in India/V. Nagarajan Naidu and S. Deepa. 19. Disability of Dalit women and human rights/S. Chinnammai. 20. Rights of persons with disabilities a human rights approach/Subhash Chandra Singh. 21. Community based rehabilitation of differently abled persons/R.R. Prasad. Index. Physically and mentally challenged persons are most marginalized and suffer from social deviance stigma and social exclusion and oppression. As it is estimated that 600 million persons with disabilities are all over the world while in India about 70 million disabled live. People with disabilities comprise between 4 and 8 per cent of Indian population (around 40 90 million). Census of 2001 reported that 21.91 million (2.13 per cent of total population) people with disabilities while the 2002 NSS Rounds disability estimate is 1.8 per cent of the population which would come to around 1.8 million. NSS Rounds estimates that 8.4 per cent of rural households and 6.1 per cent urban households had a member with disability. The prevalence of disability is increasing as globalization liberalization and modern life style have promoted accidents rate causing impairments and disabilities. Though efforts on the part of government agencies and non government agencies have been made to rehabilitate disabled however in absence of a national policy on disabled only a small proportion of disabled has got benefits from rehabilitation services and programmes. The majority of them are living in rural areas where awareness about government programmes and services is very low and thus they are deprived of such benefits. Moreover poverty illiteracy malnutrition poor health drug abuse and alcoholism diseases etc. are causing disabilities and impairments. About half of the disabilities and impairments are presentable therefore strategies and approaches to address them effectively and also to rehabilitate physically and mentally challenged persons are needed to our focused attention. With the change of time there has been paradigm shifting towards addressing the problem of disability. There is more focus on empowerment and rehabilitation of physically and mentally challenged persons rather than welfare orientation. Twentieth century social theory typically followed m.

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• Title: Rights of the Disabled : Perspective Legal Protection and Issues
• Publisher: Serials Pub, New Delhi
• Publication Date: 2008
• Binding: Hardbound
• Edition: New
• Condition: As New
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