For many people with disabilities, rights have always been a shady subject and did not have much demand as it did with other groups. They are not of different skin color, religion or country, but they are discriminated because they cannot see or hear? As you can imagine being in this position was definitely not comfortable to be in, for both the government and the handicapped people themselves. But that does not mean that the disabled people did not enjoy their share of rights.
For those who do not know, the United States includes them in the United Nation’s international human rights law, which states that every person has the right to the following. Right of equality before law, nondiscrimination, equal opportunity, independent living, full integration, and right to security. This is all nice and all but what those it have to do with a disabled person? Well, because the international human rights laws includes disabled people. Now I know that this is better from the right they had 100 years ago, where most towns did not have schools for people with disabilities, but I believe that the government can do a little better than this. The United States does have laws that make sure that the rights of these people are not tainted but there is still a lot of mistreatment going around the country. For example, 10% of the U.S population has a disability of some kind and increasing, but more than half of them say that they do not get essential services that they need in order to have more productive life. I cannot say however, that the United States has helped the disabled people by giving them many declarations of rights and laws. If I were to name all of the declaration on the rights of disabled, whether it mental, physical or physiological, I would probably be typing for a really long time. And not only has the United States helped these people by making their own laws, but the United Nations has made around 10-15 declarations of helping them or including them in a declaration that would help them. But it seem that for every step forward the government takes, its citizens just make step in the opposite direction. People would deny service to disabled person jus because of the disability, the torture of those people is as high as ever and the disabled people themselves are entering in a form of depression, especially war survivors who lost their eyes or arms. The government is trying to accept the disabled as a part of everyday society, but if the citizens will just mistreat them, we will be making no progress and that is something that definitely needs to change.
I Am happy to have found out the both the United States and United Nation are both trying to help out the disabled people as best as they can by giving helpful and equalizing laws. At the same time, am also pretty sad to find that there are still people out there who do not care for the well being of these people and actually hurt for their own selfish purposes. If this keeps up, the protest will just keep coming more frequently and eventually, violent.
To see all the United States and United Nations laws concerning disabled people click here
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