employment of persons with disabilities
Organization for Economic Co-opera- disabilities were beaten at home, 25 per ployment among the persons with dis-
tion and Development (OECD). On cent of women with intellectual dis- abilities is as high as 80 per cent in
average, 19 per cent of less educated abilities had been raped and 6 per cent some countries. Of the some 70 million
people have disabilities, compared to of women with disabilities had been persons with disabilities in India, only
11 per cent among the better educated. forcibly sterilized. Research indicates about 100,000 have succeeded in
Ninety per cent of children with dis- that violence against children with dis- obtaining employment in industry.
abilities in developing countries do not abilities occurs at annual rates at least A 2004 United States survey found
attend school, says UNESCO. In the 1.7 times greater than for their peers that only 35 per cent of working-age
OECD countries, students with disabil- without disabilities. persons with disabilities are in fact
ities in higher education remain under- Claims for disability benefits are working, compared to 78 per cent of
represented, although their numbers surging in industrialized countries - up those without disabilities. One third of
are on the increase, says the OECD. to 600 percent in some nations - the employers surveyed said that per-
1991 Brazilian census reported only encouraging governments, private sons with disabilities cannot effective-
a 1 percent to 2 percent disability rate, companies and unions to search for ly perform the required job tasks. The
but the 2001 census recorded a 14.5 ways to get disabled people back to second most common reason given for
percent disability rate. Similar jumps work, according to the International not hiring persons with disabilities was
in the measured rate of disability have Labour Organization (ILO). the fear of costly special facilities.
occurred in Turkey (12.3 percent) and Discriminatory practices continue Unions are becoming involved in
Nicaragua (10.1 percent). to deny persons with disabilities, as the return to work through the direct
Persons with disabilities are more well as workers who become disabled, provision of services, and through dis-
likely to be victims of violence or rape, access to work. Two-thirds of the ability management programs in the
according to a 2004 British study, and unemployed respondents with disabili- workplace, the ILO says. The ILO
less likely to obtain police interven- ties said they would like to work but study also finds that private insurance
tion, legal protection or preventive could not find jobs. providers are introducing more flexible
care. Women and girls with disabilities An estimated 386 million of the arrangements so that workers who
are particularly vulnerable to abuse. A world’s working-age people have some become disabled and who attempt a
survey in Orissa, India, found that vir- kind of disability, says the Internation- gradual transition to work do not lose
tually all of the women and girls with al Labor Organization (ILO). Unem- their benefits. Companies are looking
for ways to reduce costs by introducing
disability management programs in the
workplace. Thousands of persons with
disabilities have been successful as
small business owners, according to
the U.S. Department of Labor.
45 countries have anti-discrimina-
tion and other disability-specific laws.
Recent changes in national laws to pro-
mote the employment of disabled per-
sons have often not been adequate to
assist individuals with new types of
impairments. This is particularly true
for those workers suffering from the
“new” occupational diseases, for
example those related to stress and
repetitive strain injury, and for those
who have invisible disabilities, such as
mental illness and chronic pain, that do
not fall within the scope of legal defi-
nitions in some countries HNM
Source: Disabled World
Disabled-World.com
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