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Thursday, 10 June 2021, 6:08 pm Voting is now open for the Access Alliance 2021 People’s Choice Accessible Business Awards, with 24 finalists across eight essential ‘areas of life’ that all New Zealanders have the right to fully participate in. Votes for the Awards, sponsored by Cookie Time Charitable Trust and Blind Low Vision NZ, must be in by this Sunday 13 June, with winners to be announced Tuesday 15 June. There are three finalists in each of the eight ‘areas of life’ award categories, which cover all aspects of society: education; built environment including public transport;...

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A national strategy on the rights of disabled persons was formally launched for public consultation on Wednesday. The strategy, “Freedom to Live”, Malta’s 2021-2030 National Strategy on the Rights of Disabled Persons (see pdf link below), was launched by Inclusion Minister Julia Farrugia Portelli. It was developed by the Office for Disability Issues (ODI) within the Office of the Permanent Secretary through a working group made up of key experts over the past years.  ODI representative Alistair de Gaetano said the strategy is made up of 13 objectives each containing a number of actions...

The launching last Wednesday of a public consultation process covering the 2021 Act on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the 2021 Act to amend the Equal Opportunities (Persons with Disability) Act is yet another firm salvo for the overall cause of equality and inclusion in this country. It is, actually, a resolute way of bringing several loose ends together, towards creating a final package that will help streamline the whole legal and administrative apparatus for the complete implementation of the UN convention. Malta signed the convention way back ...

The terms 'able-bodied', 'epileptic' and even 'blind' are offensive and should be avoided, according to a health and welfare charity.  Leonard Cheshire, which runs development programmes across the world, compiled a 'vital' list of appropriate terms for those with disabilities.  The list stipulates words such as 'able-bodied' should be replaced with the term 'non-disabled' because the term suggests every person with a disability does not have an 'able body', The Telegraph reports.  Charity Leonard Cheshire has devised a list of appropriate and inappropriate words and phrases for those wi...