...... 12 DISABILITY - A PARADIGM SHIFT: FROM WELFARE TO HUMAN RIGHTS Commission is consistently and consciously making tireless efforts to gain its strength and capacity by actively engaging the people, their organizations and government, and other like minded institutions and individuals who are genuinely interested in creating an inclusive society in which difference is recognized as a natural aspect of human diversity regardless of the nature of difference. In the effort to accelerate the paradigm shift from welfare to the rights of the disabled, the Commission has gained new understanding of equality and discrimination and a new meaning of life, liberty and dignity which are the core values that underpin the system of human rights. It is our sincere hope that the obstacles to the enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms encountered by persons with disabilities would be efficiently removed using all the available means. Of course the persons with disabilities must play the central role in the process of change. NATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION