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DISABILITY RIGHTS: INSTITUTIONALISING SELF-REPRESENTATION
- 07 October 2024
- Justice & Constitutional Development
- SA Legal Academy
The Department of Women, Youth & Persons With Disabilities has gazetted a framework intended to serve as a ‘statutory and regulatory reference and approach’ for promoting and upholding ‘the right to self-representation by and for persons with disabilities in South Africa’. This is noting that the term ‘self-representation’ is defined as ‘the practice of people being able to articulate their own issues by … and for themselves ... and enabled and allowed to have their own voice on … (matters) relat(ing) to their specific needs and circumstances’.
With that in mind, it is anticipated that the framework will be used to guide the activities of committees to be established at local, provincial and national levels with the aim of taking the process forward.
Against that backdrop, among other things the document explores:
- constitutional and legislative obligations
- financing
- the importance of a co-ordinated approach, and
- ongoing barriers to access and participation.
Please click the link below for more information:
Published by SA Legal Academy Policy Watch
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