{"id":250637,"date":"2010-06-25T05:29:42","date_gmt":"2010-06-25T05:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/xmlimport\/index.php\/2010\/06\/25\/persons-with-disabilities-acclaim-their-rights-in-parliament\/"},"modified":"2010-06-25T05:29:42","modified_gmt":"2010-06-25T05:29:42","slug":"persons-with-disabilities-acclaim-their-rights-in-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2010\/06\/25\/persons-with-disabilities-acclaim-their-rights-in-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"Persons with disabilities acclaim their rights in Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Ghana Federation of the Disabled  (GFD), has presented a petition to Parliament in respect of the  ratification of the United Nations convention on the rights of persons  with <\/p>\n<p>disabilities by the government.<\/p>\n<p>The federation also  called for the passage of the Ghana Mental Health Bill without any  further delay.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Yaw Ofori Debra, Chairman of the Advocacy  Committee of GFD and President of Ghana Association of the Disabled,  said most of the issues in the convention have been taken care of by the  country&#8217;s Persons with Disability Act 2006(Act 7150).<\/p>\n<p>He said  however, the ratification of the convention would enable the country to  access the technical, developmental and financial benefits that the  convention makes available to member countries.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Debra said  Ghana is not a welfare State like Denmark, where laws make adequate room  for the mainstreaming of disability issues.<\/p>\n<p>According to the  World Health Organisation there are about 2.2 Million Persons with  Disabilities in Ghana, whose needs are varied vis-\u00c3\u0192\u00c2\u00a0-vis, education,  provision of assistive devices, removal of barriers, and adequate health  delivery.<\/p>\n<p>Touching on the Mental Health Bill, he said  although it has been submitted to Parliament members of GFD do not know  its status.<\/p>\n<p>He said President Evans Atta Mills visited the  Mental Hospital in Accra recently and gave the assurance that the bill  would be passed without delay.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Debra said in solidarity  with persons with disabilities in Ghana, 500,000 Ghanaians have signed  up to the urgent call on the government to speed up the processes to  ratify the convention and pass the Ghana Mental Health Bill.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana Federation of the Disabled (GFD), has presented a petition to Parliament in respect of the ratification of the United Nations convention on the rights of persons with disabilities by the government. 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