Persons with Disabilities
Integrating persons with disabilities fully into the societies of the countries of the Americas has become an important priority for the OAS. It has adopted an important international convention to help eliminate discrimination against all persons with disabilities. The OAS General Assembly has also declared the Decade of the Americas for the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities (2006-2016), the objectives of which are “recognition and full exercise of the rights and dignity of persons with disabilities and their right to participate fully in economic, social, cultural, and political life and in the development of their societies, without discrimination and on an equal basis with others.”
