The Independent Commission for Human Rights
II. Policies and Practices For Palestinian Ministries, Official
Institutions and Duty-Bearers:
Within Their Respective Areas, Competent Government
Ministries and Institutions, Should:
1. Activate mechanisms necessary for implementing legislations
and regulations relevant the employment of PWDs. Government
institutions should start the implementation process without any let
or delay.
2. Activate the employment fund in the event that the institutions don’t
implement legal provisions providing for employing a percentage of
PWDs.
3. Develop national strategies, plans and programs to mainstream the
rights of PWDs into the programs of all the Palestinian Ministries and
official institutions and build their national policies on the basis of the
human rights based approach (HRBA). They should also mainstream
the administrative and legislative measures for the rights of PWDs into
the decent work programs and development plans and the activities
of the different ministries and official institutions in a way that is
compatible with the principle of equality and equal opportunity. This
would encourage integration of PWDs into the labor market.
4. Include gender standards and disability into the state’s policies,
regulations, government and non-government institutions to ensure
the highest possible level of participation for women with disability in
the Palestinian labor market.
5. Make available technological means at the workplaces to make them
accessible to PWDs, particularly to those who suffer from seeing and
hearing impairments.
6. Issue a decision by the Council of Ministers in regard to the PWDs
working in the governmental institutions pursuant to the terms of
unemployment and per diem system to directly appoint them in
completion of the percentage provided for under the law (5%).
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