The political rights of persons with disabilities are enshrined by the Constitution of Afghanistan and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. As a State Party to the Convention, the Afghan government has the obligation to promote and protect the political rights of persons with disabilities accordingly.
To promote and protect the political rights of persons with disabilities, ALSO as a disability rights organization has been advocating for the rights of persons with disabilities based on the Convention and the national laws on the rights of persons with disabilities. For this purpose, ALSO conducted this opinion poll with 140 men and women with disabilities in province of Kabul, Balkh, Herat, Bamiyan, Daikondy and Kandahar. The objective of the opinion poll is to raise the voice of war victim and persons with disabilities in the peace process of Afghanistan.
This report shows that 51% of the respondents want involvement of persons with disabilities in all peace authorities – the State Ministry for Peace, the High Peace Council and Reconciliation and Peace Talk Delegation. 35% of the respondents expect that the representative of persons with disabilities and war victim have to be in the peace delegation so that involvement of persons with disabilities will have a positive impact on the peace process. Persons with disabilities are the main victims of war and conflict in the country and they have suffered a lot.
Moreover, persons with disabilities have high concern over their future in the upcoming government. 90% of the respondents expressed their concern over their rights in the government of the post-conflict. They highly expect that the rights of persons with disabilities to be respected based on the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in any agreement by the Taliban and the Government.
The main recommendations of this report are as following:
- The High Peace Council and Reconciliation should include the representative of persons with disabilities in the peace talk delegation;
- The State Ministry for Peace should hire persons with disabilities in this ministry to follow up disabilities inclusion in the peace process.
- The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities should be kept and respected by any agreement or government coming out of the peace process;
- The rights of persons with disabilities, especially rights of women with disabilities should be respected by any government coming into existence out of the peace process;
- In any agreement for the government of post-conflict, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities should be respected to promote and protect the rights of persons with disabilities and the war victims.
- All the achievements so far made on promotion of persons with disabilities’ rights should be protected and respected by the government coming out of the peace process in the country.
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