Persons with Disability & Sport
Final assignment: 2010/2011 | Persons with disability & Sport | Globalization of World politics | | | 07/06/2011 |
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History of the minority group: persons with disability
“Disability is any physical or mental condition that limits a person’s movements, senses or activities. The term disability is conventionally used to refer to attributes that are severe enough to interfere with, or prevent, normal day-to-day activities.”
There are over 600 million people in the world that have a disability in one form or another, which count for almost 10 per cent of the world’s population. This minority group has, for many decades, been standing as an outsider in society and been subject to systematic discrimination and neglect. However recently, there has been a drive throughout the world to shift the perception of the disabled from a viewpoint of objectivity to that of subjectivity. That is, the disabled are to now be approached in a manner in which they will be granted rights, not solely as an act of charity. For this to continue we need to locate the problems that exist in society and remove them systematically, the biggest problem is, to move away from viewing persons with disability as a problem but as individuals with the same rights. Even though this process is slow, in the last two decades there have been many positive changes in all economic and social systems.
In the beginning of the 1980s the United Nations decided to generate a great deal of awareness about the problems of the disabled world-wide. They started by introducing a global strategy called “The World Program of Action Concerning Disabled Persons” with the main goal being to get full participation of persons with disabilities in social life and national development. The overall aims were to enhance disability prevention, rehabilitation and equalization of opportunities. They wanted to move the perception of persons with disability by addressing it from a human rights
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History of the minority group: persons with disability
“Disability is any physical or mental condition that limits a person’s movements, senses or activities. The term disability is conventionally used to refer to attributes that are severe enough to interfere with, or prevent, normal day-to-day activities.”
There are over 600 million people in the world that have a disability in one form or another, which count for almost 10 per cent of the world’s population. This minority group has, for many decades, been standing as an outsider in society and been subject to systematic discrimination and neglect. However recently, there has been a drive throughout the world to shift the perception of the disabled from a viewpoint of objectivity to that of subjectivity. That is, the disabled are to now be approached in a manner in which they will be granted rights, not solely as an act of charity. For this to continue we need to locate the problems that exist in society and remove them systematically, the biggest problem is, to move away from viewing persons with disability as a problem but as individuals with the same rights. Even though this process is slow, in the last two decades there have been many positive changes in all economic and social systems.
In the beginning of the 1980s the United Nations decided to generate a great deal of awareness about the problems of the disabled world-wide. They started by introducing a global strategy called “The World Program of Action Concerning Disabled Persons” with the main goal being to get full participation of persons with disabilities in social life and national development. The overall aims were to enhance disability prevention, rehabilitation and equalization of opportunities. They wanted to move the perception of persons with disability by addressing it from a human rights