COCEMFE calls for respect for the rights of persons with disabilities
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– yesterday October 24th is celebrated the day of the UN
-COCEMFE calls for compliance with the UN disability rights Convention
-the adaptation of legislation Spanish to the Convention is already in force
Madrid, 2011-October the Spanish Confederation of people with physical disability and organic (COCEMFE) calls on the political forces who are elected in general elections, which monitored compliance with adaptations of Spanish legislation to the International Convention on the rights of persons with disabilities from United Nationsadopted recently and already in force.
Coinciding with the day of United Nations, which was held yesterday, October 24, the President of COCEMFE, Mario GarcÃa, ensures that compliance with these adaptations are essential to achieve that future regulations, policies and public actions towards persons with disabilities incorporated the inclusive point of view and respect for human rights ”.
Approved adaptation is an important step forward in the defence of the rights of persons with disabilities as it picks up all the problems and concerns of the associative movement of disability and reinforces the application of law of equal opportunities, non-discrimination and Universal accessibility ”, notes GarcÃa.
In the same way, have changed various laws which includes disability as a new cause of non-discrimination of the individual in his relationship with the various public health administrations. As regards housing, it incorporates advances as the increase of 3% to 4% of affordable housing in promotion of official protection, the obligation to carry out more accessibility works in the communities of neighbors, increasing from 3 to 12 the number of monthly payments to as maximum can cost such a reform, and the establishment of helplines for performances and accessibility works to improve the quality of life of the collective.
On employment, includes two relevant issues to combat the enormous difference between the activity rate of persons with disabilities and the population in general: expands up to 7% quota reservation of vacancies in public employment offers and orders measures to ensure that companies of more than 50 workers comply with the reserve of 2% of their jobs ”, says the President of COCEMFE.
The Spanish Confederation of people with physical disability and organic (COCEMFE) is a non-governmental non-profit that was founded in 1980. It aims to unite, strengthen and form coordination efforts and activities of entities working in favour of persons with disabilities physical and organic to defend their rights and improve their quality of life. The entity brings together more than 1,360 organizations divided into autonomous confederations, State institutions and provincial federations which in turn, grouped to different local associations.
