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 19

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