Ghana: Pressure On Govt to Review Ghana's Disability Law

Government is being accused of relegating the concerns of Persons with disability to the back-burner following its failure to give attention to several calls to review the persons with disabilities Act 715, 2006, which is deficient in many aspects.

According to the Ghana Federation of Disability Organisations (GFD), Mind Freedom-Ghana and the Media Caucus on Disability, the current disability law, Act 715(2006) is laden with challenges and therefore not robust enough to stand the test of time, hence, the urgent need for the Act to be modified in order to be compliant with the United Nation Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disability (UNCRPD).

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