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5.
Also calls upon States parties to adopt and implement appropriate measures,
including legislative measures, to ensure that persons with disabilities enjoy the right to
work on an equal basis with others, including by, inter alia:
(a)
Prohibiting by law discrimination on the basis of disability in the area of
work and at all phases of employment, including the denial of reasonable accommodation;
(b)
Promoting equal access for persons with disabilities to the open labour
market, in particular by promoting alternative approaches to sheltered employment schemes
where such schemes are inconsistent with the Convention;
(c)
Adopting positive measures, as appropriate, to increase employment of
persons with disabilities in the public and private sectors, in particular for women and youth
with disabilities, persons with intellectual or psychosocial disabilities, and ensuring that
such positive measures are designed and promoted in a way that recognizes the value of
diversity in the workplace and of equal career development for all;
(d)
Employing persons with disabilities in the public sector and considering
setting targets for such employment;
(e)
Promoting inclusive and non-discriminatory opportunities for selfemployment, entrepreneurship, the development of cooperatives and starting one’s own
business, including through microfinance schemes;
(f)
Establishing accessibility requirements for all employers to eliminate barriers
that hinder job seekers and employees with disabilities from access to the workplace on an
equal basis with others;
(g)
Ensuring reasonable accommodation is provided in both public and private
sector employment;
(h)
Ensuring also that persons with disabilities have equal access to education
and vocational training that is non-discriminatory, accessible to and inclusive of persons
with disabilities, including by providing reasonable accommodation, and by promoting
continuous learning;
(i)
Ensuring further that habilitation and rehabilitation programmes are nondiscriminatory and adequately take into account the needs of persons with disabilities;
(j)
Establishing and maintaining access to social protection programmes,
including those created pursuant to recommendation No. 202 of the International Labour
Organization concerning national floors for social protection, that support persons with
disabilities in seeking, transitioning to and maintaining work, and that recognize the
additional costs that persons with disabilities face in their access to the open labour market;
(k)
Promoting public awareness campaigns to address negative attitudes, stigma
and stereotypes of persons with disabilities, including women with disabilities, that hinder
their opportunity to participate in work and employment on an equal basis with others;
6.
Reaffirms the obligation of States parties to ensure that persons with
disabilities are not held in slavery or in servitude, and are protected, on an equal basis with
others, from forced or compulsory labour;
7.
Calls upon States parties, and urges private sector employers and workers’
organizations to ensure that measures to assist persons with disabilities in their access to
and maintaining employment are consistent with the Convention, including the general
principles of inclusion in society, individual autonomy, including the freedom to make
one’s own choices, and independence of persons;
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