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Haiti - Social : «A law guides but does not replace the willingness !» (dixit Gérald Oriol) 03/12/2012 09:00:55
During his speech, Gérald Oriol, Jr., Secretary of State for the Integration of Persons with Disabilities reminded about the law on the integration of people with disabilities that "For this law bears fruit, it is also necessary that the wills private and of business sector as the public sector, take it into account and decide to put it into practice. A law guides but does not replace the willingness !" Speech of Secretary of State : "Colleagues of the Government, Dear members of international partners Dear members of associations working in the field of disability Distinguished Guests, Dear fellow citizens, Ladies and Gentlemen, Tomorrow brings the International Day of Persons with disabilities. For thosewho look them from the outside, with a cold eye, they seem sometimes very mechanical, very rhetorical, very politically correct these thematic days that the United Nations decree and multiply. However, when one is concerned closely by the question, the problem, the suffering subject of the day, sometimes one feels like a secret joy : that of knowing that this day, that day at least, the problem is not ignored, its suffering is not despised ! Indeed, this joy is bitter when you realize that the evocation of the problem returned almost to classify it : We talk about it, my good lady! We talk! So, of what are you complaining again? Seem to proclaim these days which follow, without that things are really changing. Perhaps even more when the day affects people whose sufferings are stigmatized. Denial, contempt, ridicule, fear and sometimes the hatred, the ignorance always, do not seem to backward and we doubt that many speeches change the lives of people who confron these pain day to day. However, I will not criticize these days! These days are what they are: tools, opportunities. It is up to us to use them ! It is to us to not miss them ! To seize the opportunity of this Day of People with Disability, we decided to revisit a major achievement of the past year: the vote and the promulgation of the Law on Persons with Disabilities [published in the newspaper Le Moniteur ay 21, 2012]. But like the Day of People with Disability, the Law on integration does not do everything. It is still necessary that it is converted into facts. As it is necessary that it is in our minds before in our acts, let me, I hope, to recall the main features of this law :
By doing this, by its very enactment, the law has already reached two objectives :
However, in order that this law does not remain a dead letter, but bears fruit, its enactment is not enough. Indeed, it must be known and recognized and I count here on the support of the media, on the support of human rights organizations and the involvement of activist groups in the disability field. Finally, it is necessary for everyone to do a civic duty to implement it, and encourage others to implement it. Here, I do not think only to you, my fellow citizens, but also to individuals and institutions invited into our country under humanitarian aid and development. It is crucial that NGOs, aid agencies and donors have the duty to know the law and implement it. Of course, you will say me ? Not so much in the month of March, during the inauguration of the Peace Court of Hinche, yet financed by the European Union, I have able to observe, having been obliged to be carried to the place of dinner, that the minimum accessibility standards had not been taken into account. This is not acceptable and this must change ! For this law bears fruit, it is also necessary that the wills private and of business sector as the public sector, take it into account and decide to put it into practice. A law guides but does not replace the willingness ! Obviously, the promulgation of this law is not everything, but it's like the opening of a site, such as the drawing of a route that will take us further in the fulfillment of our vocation of people and our ideal of nation. Here I must salute several colleagues in government who began to follow suit in order to respect the prerogatives of the Act, and I had at the instant the pleasure of congratulating of companies that have taken significant steps in favor of accessibility of all to their local services. This shows that what we are talking, the accessibility of all to premises, services and to the exercise of civil and political rights is not only the subject of a law and the theme of a day : it is also a reality established by the effective conscience of persons responsible ! By thanking the President for his support, I thank the Lord for these first results, by invoking its assistance for the continuation of our work." See also : https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-7304-haiti-social-international-day-of-people-with-disability.html https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-6608-haiti-social-access-for-disabled-persons-to-employment-and-to-the-adapted-work.html https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-7253-haiti-social-positive-results-of-gerald-oriol-jr-may-october-2012.html HL/ HaitiLibre
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