The Right Of Persons With Disability To Decent Work In Palestine “ Field Study” • The findings of the study indicated that one of the reasons that keep PWDs away from the labor market is the difficulty to use transportation service because of lack of transportation accommodation. Additionally, the typically negative attitude towards the employment of PWDs and the spread of nepotism; particularly in the public sector affected the possibility of integrating PWDs into the labor market. The absence of support tools; especially for persons with seeing and hearing impairment also minimizes their participation in the labor market. The strong competition between the PWDs and the persons without disability at the labor market; particularly among those who have education degrees can be added to the factors that affect the participation of the PWDs in the labor market. Women with Disability and Unemployment: • Women with disability suffer from several obstacles concerning accessibility to the labor market. These obstacles are related to gender-based attitudes, traditions and customs, low wages, unequal opportunity, increase in unemployment rates among women, women’s work being linked to house-keeping and decreasing women’s participation in the labor sector, 17% in the West Bank and less than that in the Gaza Strip. Women also face strong, gender-based competition and obstacles arising from the general economic crisis. • Rates of unemployment among women with disability are higher than those among men with disability. They are also less likely than their counterparts of women without disability to join the labor market. Among the respondents, the rate of unemployed women with disability is 73% while that of the employed is 14%. The study also indicated that 12.5% of the female respondents worked in the past, 51% don’t have work at present and 23% of them worked in the past but have no work at the present. • Women with disability recorded the best labor market outcomes at NGOs with a participation rate of 37% compared with 26% at the public sector and 21% at the private sector. • The occupations carried out by women with disability in the public 7