Write Petition

Nepal Disabled Human Rights Centre is a National level NGO; advocates on the issues of Human Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

It is assume that 2.4 million Persons with disabilities are situated in Nepal. Among them more than 6 hundred thousand people are people with Intellectual disability and severe disability.

The living condition of people with severe and Intellectual disability is getting worse day by day. The existing policy has not been properly implemented for people with severely and intellectually disabled. The situation leading them to the bottom pile of socio economic status and not able to utilize the services offered by the government. In a family where there is person with severe and Intellectual disability the member of the family have to help them regularly so they always take them as a burden.

We can't imagine how worse the situation of severe Person with disability who doesn't have any relatives. On this issue DHRC-Nepal has send letters to stakeholders time to time for seeking information but there was not any response of that letter so from Nepal Disabled Human Rights Centre Advocate Shudarson Subedi and from the side of severe disability Dipendra Shakya has registered write petition today on Supreme Court.

In this write application we are demanding for disability access physical Infrastructure, on the condition of severe and Intellectual disability unemployment allowance and caretaker should be given, there should be guarantee of education, health, Community disability house should be made for helpless people and re-writing of disabled protection & welfare act 2039.

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Maheshwar Ghimire

General Secretary