About the Book: Disability and Human Rights
Disability is a silent crisis that not only affects the disabled persons and
their families but also the social and economic development of entire society.
The society has a moral responsibility to see and also to provide persons with
disabilities all kinds of opportunities in order that the concerned disabled
persons enjoy all human rights and fundamental freedom. Discrimination faced by
disabled persons in education and in the employment sector and their continuous
exclusion from the society at large, their potentialities remain untapped by the
society. The United Nations declared 1981 as the International Year of Disabled
Persons, in order