Persons with disabilities

46 | Rights of persons with disabilities

Law Society of Zimbabwe: Model Constitution of Zimbabwe (2010)

Anyone with a disability is entitled to respect for their human dignity, and the State must take appropriate measures to ensure that disabled persons realise their full mental and physical potential including measures—

  1.  
    1. to enable them to become self reliant;
    2. to enable them to live with their families and participate in social, creative or recreational facilities;
    3.  to protect them from all forms of exploitation;  and
    4.  to give them access to medical, psychological and functional treatment.
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42 | Rights of persons with disabilities

National Constitutional Assembly (NCA) Draft Constitution (2001)

Every person with a disability is entitled to respect and human dignity and the state must take appropriate measures to ensure that disabled persons realise their full mental and physical potential including measures:

  1. to enable them to become self reliant;
  2. to enable them to live with their families and participate in social, creative or recreational facilities;
  3. to protect them from all forms of exploitation or abuse;
  4. to give them access to medical, psychological and functional treatment;
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24 | Persons with disabilities

Kariba Draft Constitution
  1. The State and society must recognise the right of persons with physical, mental or other disabilities to be treated with respect for their dignity as human beings.
  2. The State must endeavour, within the resources available to it, to assist persons with physical, mental or other disabilities to achieve their full potential and to minimise the disadvantages suffered by them.
  3. In particular, the State must endeavour to–
    1. develop programmes for persons with physical, mental or other disabilities, especially work programmes consistent with their capabilities and acceptable to them or their legal representatives;
    2. consider the specific requirements of persons with physical, mental or other disabilities as one of the priorities in development plans;
    3. encourage the use and development of sign language and other forms of communication suitable for use by persons with physical, mental or other disabilities; and
    4. (d)
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