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Approximately 12 million French citizens are affected by disability. [1] The history of disability activism in France dates back to the French Revolution when the national obligation to help disabled citizens was recognized, but it was "unclear whether or not such assistance should be public or private."
The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, like the other United Nations human rights conventions, (such as the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women) resulted from decades of activity during which group rights standards developed from aspirations to binding treaties.
The European Union policy for disabled people guarantees governmental responsibility for all disabled people in all of the EU's 27 member states. This policy operates in the framework of the subsidiarity principle: if possible, one should improve at the national level, though in principle the EU will refrain from setting strictly binding laws in this area.
Headquartered in France and Belgium, since its creation, it has opened branches in six other countries: Switzerland, Luxembourg, United Kingdom, Germany, Canada and the United States. It is an organization which aims to help disabled and vulnerable people in situations of poverty and exclusion, conflict and disaster. [2]
The convention was designed to combat many of the challenges that people with disabilities face through legal protections of rights and freedoms, increased access to services that facilitate independent living, decreased discrimination and stigmatization, and raised awareness of disability-related issues.
People with developmental disabilities and those who assist them live and work together to create homes. The L'Arche Charter says, "In a divided world, L'Arche wants to be a sign of hope . Its communities, founded on covenant relationships between people of differing intellectual capacity, social origin, religion and culture, seek to be signs ...
The medical model considers disability a physical problem: an incapability of a disabled person to perform activities of daily living like a non-disabled person. This model focuses on easing inconvenience and improving the daily experience of a person with disabilities, such as advanced assistive devices or mobility aids like wheelchairs for disabled people who live independently.
International Symbol of Access denotes area with access for those with disabilities.. The disability rights movement advocates equal access to social, political, and economic life which includes not only physical access but access to the same tools, services, organizations and facilities as non-disabled people (e.g., museums [10] [11]).