The Right Of Persons With Disability To Decent Work In Palestine “ Field Study”
aimed at ensuring creation of job opportunities for them.
2. The General Union of People with Disability should develop a database
for PWDs. It should implement that in cooperation with CBOs and
specialist institutions to ensure necessary information concerning
PWDs, especially about those who are registered with it and those
who suffer from unemployment and difficulty to get integrated into
the labor market. It should be able to provide information relevant to
their qualifications, specializations and type of disability.
3. The General Union of People with Disability should encourage PWDs
to join professional associations and trade unions to defend their
rights. This could be done in cooperation and coordination with
concerned authorities. It should also discuss with them the means
of cooperation to improve work conditions of persons with disability
and hold collective agreements to protect their rights in workplaces;
especially in industrial establishments.
4. The rights organizations, ICHR and Professional Associations should
receive complaints from PWDs with regard to violations of their rights
at workplaces. These complaints should be followed up with the
competent authorities to do justice to them.
5. Civil society organizations, particularly organizations concerned with
issues of PWDs, professional associations and trade unions and the
General Union of People with Disability should unify their efforts of
pressure and advocacy to push official Palestinian duty-bearers to
amend laws and draw policies, plans and programs that ensure active
participation of PWDs in the labor market and their right to decent
work.
6. Civil society organizations, especially rights organizations and
those specialized in the field of the rights of PWDs should develop
educational programs to raise awareness of the different levels to
promote the rights of PWDs, particularly their right to decent work.
Such programs are necessary for changing the typical attitude of the
society towards PWDs.
7. Asking rights organizations and civil society organizations to benefit
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