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equal access to education for all. The law requires regional and city-level administrations to
create the necessary conditions for high-quality education without discrimination against
persons with disabilities. Federal legislators are currently developing concrete
implementation standards for inclusive education, including curricular and infrastructural
modifications. Inclusive schools are envisaged in the framework of the “Accessible
Environment” State programme. More than 5,000 accessible schools providing conditions
for the education of children with disabilities had already been created by the end of 2013.
The goal is to create 10,000 such schools by the beginning of 2016.
53.
Serbia: The Protector of Citizen’s Ombudsman’s Office and the OHCHR Human
Rights Advisor have been successful in influencing the discourse on deinstitutionalization
in order for it to include a human rights perspective in line with the norms and standards of
the Convention. In 2013, they held two sessions presenting a draft deinstitutionalization
road map to local self-governments and representatives of residential institutions, and two
high level expert round tables at which national policy in this domain was discussed. By the
end of 2013, the draft road map was presented to all relevant stakeholders. The road map,
prepared by a national expert group, is to be finalized, endorsed by the Ombudsman’s
office and officially proposed to the Government in 2014.
54.
Ukraine: In 2012, Ukraine adopted anti-discrimination legislation improving
compliance with the Convention, a requirement contained in recommendations of various
United Nations human rights mechanisms. Throughout 2013, OHCHR worked on
amendments to the law. An expert discussion focusing on implementing equality and nondiscrimination legislation and policies was organized in Ukraine, and a training workshop
was held on measuring progress on the implementation of equality and non-discrimination
legislation. These activities involved representatives of the Ministries of Justice and
Interior, the parliament, the judiciary, NGOs and the Ombudsman’s office. Several draft
amendments were drawn up, partly addressing the comments of OHCHR and international
experts.
2.
The Partnership
55.
Moldova: OHCHR, UNDP, UNICEF and WHO are working closely to bring about
catalytic change with regard to rights to equal legal capacities, access to justice, the right to
live independently in the community, inclusive education; the strengthening of civil
society; and improved monitoring of Convention implementation. As a result of this
project, significant advances have been made in establishing justice oversight over
previously closed institutions and there is much greater awareness, in Moldovan psychiatry,
about Convention provisions. At the same time, policy dialogue has advanced significantly
on issues such as legal capacity reform, adult deinstitutionalization and the formal
establishment, under the State budget, of an Ombudsperson for Psychiatry. In addition, an
NGO of users and survivors of psychiatry was established for the first time in 2013 as a
direct result of the project.
56.
Ukraine: In Ukraine, the rights of persons with disabilities are among the priority
areas of a Partnership Framework between the United Nations and the Government (20122016). The Partnership-funded programme, developed by UNDP, UNICEF, ILO and WHO
in cooperation with the Government and civil society organizations in Ukraine, aims to
promote the application of accessibility and universal design standards as enablers of
inclusion and participation of persons with disabilities. It focuses on existing barriers that
prevent or limit equal access to services and facilities intended for the general public,
including law and policy.
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