The workshop agreed on a fifteen point charter of
recommendations:
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Move away from medical classifications of reduced
capacity to
labour to positive assessments of their skills,
abilities and interests;
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Combat all forms of disadvantage that typically go with
disability;
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Promote equal rights of all citizens, regardless of
disability status;
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Promote 'mainstreaming' in education, training and
employment
for as many disabled people as possible;
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Consider quotas as partial short-term solutions to
urgent
problems, to be largely replaced by strategies based on
vocational
rehabilitation and workplace adjustments;
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Use 'sheltered' employment activities as a supplement
to open
employment;
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Tackle wage discrimination and employment security of
the
disabled as issues of civil rights;
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Strengthen the job security of workers with
disabilities, by
promoting 'advancement' in employment;
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Improve work security of disabled workers by proper
safety and
health measures;
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Provide wage subsidies to increase income and labour
market
security of those with disabilities;
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Provide income transfers that encourage free choice of
economic
activity by the disabled;
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Make sure that public agencies Practise What they
Preach, by
implementing non-discriminatory practices in
employment;
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Provide training for specialists assisting the disabled
in employ
ment;
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Strengthen mechanisms to involve disabled people in
drawing up
and implementing legal rules and policies promoting
their employ
ment and protecting incomes.
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Information for guiding policymaking and for assisting
the disabled
in the labour market must be improved and more widely
disseminated.
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| ILO Film |
| Fully fit at work |
Film about the advantages of employing persons with disabilities. As this ILO film (Fully Fit at Work) shows, not only may people with disabilities be more productive, they may actually be more skilled in some jobs than non-disabled people. Produced for the ILO by the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing.
Watch the film online in Polish with English subtitles. Duration: 21 min 11 sec
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Press release in English and
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| Events & campaigns |
World Day Against Child Labour
12 June 2008
Education: The right response to child labour
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A package for social and economic progress
The Albanian pilot of the One UN Programme will make use of the experiences of the International Labour Organization (ILO) gained in the field. As the only tripartite organisation within the United Nations system, the ILO plays a key role in involving social partners in the recently launched UN reform process.
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