June 23: PM The Right to Decent Work of Persons with Disabilities
Training Report - Decent work course
In developing countries, 80% to 90% of persons with disabilities of working age are umemployed. They are frequently not considered potential members of the workforce. Most of those who have jobs receive little or no monetary remuneration. Perception, fear, myth and prejudice continue to limit understanding and acceptance of disability in workplaces everywhere. Many countries do not have legislation to promote and protect the rights of workers with disabilities.
The primary goal of the International Labour Organization (ILO) today is to promote opportunities for man and women to obtain decent work and productive work, in conditions of freedom, equity, security, and human dignity.
http://www.ilo.org/global/About_the_ILO/Mainpillars/WhatisDecentWork/lang--en/index.htm
The lecturer, Professor of Hosei University, a former Vocational Rehabilitation advisor for Asia and Pacific region of ILO lectured on the rights to decent work of persons with disabilities. He explained major international conventions, recommendation, declaration etc. related to the employment of persons with disabilities including Article 27 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD).
http://www.un.org/disabilities/convention/conventionfull.shtml
All the participants knew some of the conventions or recommendations, however it was their first time to know about international efforts to eliminate the discrimination against persons with disabilities in employment field. Today they understood that everyone, with or without disabilities, without any exception, has the right to work. Not just to work but decent work!
