REFRAMING SOCIAL POLICY: 6. Right to social integration and full participation in the community; 7. Respect of differences; 8. Equalization of opportunities; 9. Right to participate in community’s political life; 10. Right to freedom of association. Main Guidelines towards Good Policy and Good Legislation… Regardless of the policy approach to human rights provision to disabled people, one must take into account the saying that“any policy is as good as the impact of its implementation”. Regardless of the difference between the status and the goal of each of the legal documents which regulate this subject matter, the most important elements are the content and the approach to defining the manner of enjoyment of these rights. Before one discusses the guidelines, one must set the fundamental postulate, axiom, position or barricade from which the disabled people must not make any concessions.“Non passarant” is the position for the disability location. So the disability is not in the disabled person. This person, like all the other people, is just a human with his or her dignity and rights. The disability is in the relation(communication) between the person(with disability) and the community. This twisted relation and wrong communication should be re-established and renewed. It shall be done with positive actions of the organized community – state. Only then can one establish a good definition of disability and only from this baseline can one make good policy and good legislation. Our main baselines towards policy and legislation definition may be the following: 1. Disability in mainstreams. The starting policy of all the documents regulating the disability issue should be full inclusion of disabled persons, their potentials and capabilities as integral part of the community’s entire human potential. 2. “Nothing for us without us”. Not a single policy approach to disability can be comprehensive and deep enough without active participation of disabled people themselves, especially those groups of theirs which are subject to exclusion (disabled women and children, menatlly disabled persons...). 3. Society for all. The inclusion policy must clearly define the inclusive society and disabled persons’ role in it. 4. Non-discrimination. Measures must be designed which will not leave legal gaps of toleration of any kind of discrimination on the grounds of disability. 5. Positive discrimination. Good policy has to foresee strong comprehensive state measures which will ensure putting the disabled persons in a more favourable position for the purpose of equalizing the opportunities, but for as long as there is a need for such an action. 200
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