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CONVENTION on the RIGHTS of PERSONS with DISABILITIESSome Facts about
Persons
with Disabilities
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Overview
Around 10 per cent of the world's population, or 650 million people, live
with
a disability. They are the world's largest minority.
This figure is increasing through population growth, medical advances and
the
ageing process, says the World Health Organization (WHO).
In countries with life expectancies over 70 years, individuals spend on
average about 8 years, or 11.5 per cent of their life span, living with
disabilities.
Eighty per cent of persons with disabilities live in developing countries,
according to the UN Development Programme (UNDP).
Disability rates are significantly higher among groups with lower
educational
attainment in the countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation
and
Development (OECD), says the OECD Secretariat. On average, 19 per cent of
less
educated people have disabilities, compared to 11 per cent among the
better
educated.
In most OECD countries, women report higher incidents of disability than
men.
The World Bank estimates that 20 per cent of the world's poorest people
are
disabled, and tend to be regarded in their own communities as the most
disadvantaged.
Women with disabilities are recognized to be multiply disadvantaged,
experiencing exclusion on account of their gender and their disability.
Women and girls with disabilities are particularly vulnerable to abuse. A
small 2004 survey in Orissa, India, found that virtually all of the women
and
girls with disabilities were beaten at home, 25 per cent of women with
intellectual disabilities had been raped and 6 per cent of disabled women
had
been forcibly sterilized.
According to UNICEF, 30 per cent of street youths are disabled.
Mortality for children with disabilities may be as high as 80 per cent in
countries where under-five mortality as a whole has decreased below 20 per
cent, says the United Kingdom's Department for International Development,
adding that in some cases it seems as if children are being "weeded out".
Comparative studies on disability legislation shows that only 45 countries
have anti-discrimination and other disability-specific laws.
In the United Kingdom, 75 per cent of the companies of the FTSE 100 Index
on
the London Stock Exchange do not meet basic levels of web accessibility,
thus
missing out on more than $147 million in revenue.
Education
Ninety per cent of children with disabilities in developing countries do
not
attend school, says UNESCO.
The global literacy rate for adults with disabilities is as low as 3 per
cent,
and 1 per cent for women with disabilities, according to a 1998 UNDP
study.
In the OECD countries, students with disabilities in higher education
remain
under-represented, although their numbers are on the increase, says the
OECD.
Employment
An estimated 386 million of the world's working-age people are disabled,
says
the International Labour Organization (ILO). Unemployment among the
disabled
is as high as 80 per cent in some countries. Often employers assume that
persons with disabilities are unable to work.
Even though persons with disabilities constitute a significant 5 to 6 per
cent
of India's population, their employment needs remain unmet, says a study
by
India's National Centre for Promotion of Employment for Disabled People,
in
spite of the "People with Disabilities" Act, which reserves for them 3 per
cent of government jobs. Of the some 70 million people with disabilities
in
India, only about 100,000 have succeeded in obtaining employment in
industry.
A 2004 United States survey found that only 35 per cent of working-age
people
with disabilities are in fact working, compared to 78 per cent of those
without disabilities. Two-thirds of the unemployed, disabled respondents
said
they would like to work but could not find jobs.
A 2003 study by Rutgers University found that people with physical and
mental
disabilities continue to be vastly underrepresented in the U.S. workplace.
One-third of the employers surveyed said that people with disabilities
cannot
effectively perform the required job tasks. The second most common reason
given for not hiring the disabled was the fear of costly special
facilities.
A U.S. survey of employers conducted in 2003 found that the cost of
accommodations was only $500 or less; 73 per cent of employers reported
that
their employees did not require special facilities at all.
Companies report that employees with disabilities have better retention
rates,
reducing the high cost of turnover, says a 2002 U.S. study. Other American
surveys reveal that after one year of employment, the retention rate of
persons with disabilities is 85 per cent.
Thousands of people with disabilities have been successful as small
business
owners, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. The 1990 national
census
revealed that people with disabilities have a higher rate of
self-employment
and small business experience (12.2 per cent) than people without
disabilities
(7.8 per cent).
Violence
For every child killed in warfare, three are injured and permanently
disabled.
In some countries, up to a quarter of disabilities result from injuries
and
violence, says WHO.
Persons with disabilities are more likely to be victims of violence or
rape,
according to a 2004 British study, and less likely to obtain police
intervention, legal protection or preventive care.
Research indicates that violence against children with disabilities occurs
at
annual rates at least 1.7 times greater than for their non-disabled peers.
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