Integration of person's with disability in public and private sector

Abstract

Persons with disabilities have the same rights and needs as others and face the same challenges. The following study is concerned with how persons with disabilities in different countries, especially in Lebanon, are being treated and the obstacles they face when they are integrated with the private and public sectors. The paper will highlight the discrimination in the field of work that involves disrupting equal opportunities to establish a working relationship and enjoy all rights in this field. The present study indicates the importance of education and the role of public and private schools in enhancing the social-economic situations regarding people with disabilities. Policies and programs to promote an inclusive environment for persons with disabilities are limited and need to be strengthened. Several reasons explain why the Lebanese State has still neither adopted a human rights-based approach to disability nor implemented and enforced its Law 220/2000 on persons with disabilities. That’s why the paper argues that all relevant stakeholders must develop and use a unified and systematic method for classifying disability, which reflects the diversity of PWDs in Lebanon. In the end, this study addresses specific policies and recommendations that shall be taken into consideration in order to promote an inclusive environment for disabled people, and the need for health services and social security arrangements to reach all fractions of persons with disabilities.