The new National Plan for the Rights of People with Disabilities, called Viver sim Limite 2, should be launched in October. The second stage of the plan should promote the civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights of people with disabilities and their families.
This Thursday (21st) is National Day of Struggle for People with Disabilities. The date was made official in the country in 2005 through Law No. 11,133, but it had been celebrated since 1982 in Brazil.
According to the national secretary for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities of the Ministry of Human Rights and Citizenship, Anna Paula Feminella, Viver sem Limite seeks to promote the civil, social, political, cultural and environmental rights of people with disabilities, impacting the lives of their families. families and the community. “When we build this context, inclusion is capable of promoting local development and providing another GDP for the country,” she says.
The Plan’s proposals were constructed through public consultation and were based around four axes: Inclusive and Participatory Management, Combating violence and ableism, Accessibility and Assistive technology and Access to Rights.
For professor at the Department of Public Health at the University of Brasília (UnB) Everton Luis Pereira, the expectations for those working in the sector are “quite significant” for the launch of the new stage of the program. “It brings a new perspective to resuming quality public debate on the rights of people with disabilities”, says the expert, who is also coordinator of the University’s Disability Observatory.
According to him, in the first phase of Viver sem Limite, launched in 2012, there were great advances. “Undeniably, we saw a radical change mainly from the perspective of expanding access. The plan received a lot of resources from the federal government and transformed public policies, bringing the issue of disability into the public debate in a very pronounced way”, he says, remembering the importance of policies being built listening to the demands of people with disabilities.
“What we hope is that the government listens to the demands presented, that the national, state and municipal councils monitor the actions and that the policy becomes effective”, says the vice-president of the National Council for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (Conade), Décio Gomes Santiago.
Achievements and challenges
The fight for the rights of people with disabilities has made some progress in recent years, with the expansion of rights, especially after the ratification of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, in 2009, and the approval of the Brazilian Inclusion Law, in 2012. However, one of the main challenges, according to professor Everton Luis Pereira, is to ensure that all these rights are guaranteed in the daily lives of people with disabilities.
“This ranges from the simplest rights, such as respect for reserved parking spaces, to priority access to goods and services, the guarantee of inclusive education, access and permanence in the job market”, he says.
Another challenge highlighted by the expert is in relation to accessibility. “It’s about ensuring access, ensuring that people can be there in every way. It’s much more than the access ramp, it’s about being able to understand what people are saying. And accessibility guarantees inclusion, which is why it’s so important” .
The population with disabilities in Brazil was estimated at 18.6 million people aged two years or older, which corresponds to 8.9% of the population in this age group. The data comes from the People with disabilities module, from Pnad Contínua 2022, from IBGE.
Biopsychosocial assessment
Another topic on the agenda of this segment is the change in the way each disability is assessed – the so-called biopsychosocial assessment. The government established a working group to support the evaluation regulation and propose the instrument’s implementation processes.
The new model will change the assessment made through a medical report to a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary assessment based on the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF), a model from the World Health Organization (WHO).
“We will have a unique instrument throughout Brazil to identify the disability and the support needed for each individual. It is a paradigm shift in which we replace the biomedical model, based on medical reports and the ICD (International Classification of Diseases), with the understanding of functionality. So, we remove that limited view of the body as a problem”, explains secretary Anna Paula.
“It is an advance, but it needs to be listened to by those at the forefront and discussed with all segments of people with disabilities in Brazil”, says the vice-president of Conade.
Campaign
In partnership with the Sergio Arouca National School of Public Health (ENSP/Fiocruz), the Secretariat is developing a campaign to combat ableism.
“The objective is to deal with issues in a simple way that we sometimes don’t reflect on. We need to talk about disability from another perspective, other than that of pity, or from a medical point of view, which needs healing or rehabilitation”, says Anna Paula.
According to her, the campaign seeks to deconstruct thoughts that often end up hindering social equity, even if people often have no intention of doing so. “I, as a wheelchair user, was once at the bus stop and received a coin in my lap, even though I wasn’t asking for alms”, she explains.
The information is from Agência Brasil
The post New plan for people with disabilities will be launched in October appeared first in Jornal de Brasília.
Source link
THE NAIS IS OFFICIAL EDITOR ON NAIS NEWS