Today, 3rd December, is International Day of People with Disabilities. This is a United Nations sanctioned day that aims to promote an understanding of people with disabilities and encourage support for their dignity, rights and well-being. There have been many improvements over the years within Gibraltar for those with disabilities, many of which have been fought hard for, but there is still long way to go. The Gibraltar Disability Society has always placed anti-discriminatory legislation at the top of its agenda, therefore we would like use this day to call for Government to urgently honour their manifesto commitment “to legislate to further protect disabled people within their first year in Government using the terms of the UN Convention as a model”.
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