BackThe Greek Ombudsman published on 7th November a Special Report on Rights of Persons with Disabilities. This is the third of its kind since the assignment to the Ombudsman of the special mandate for the external, independent monitoring of the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
The main objective of this report, as well as of the preceding ones, is to identify the policy areas where progress has been made towards the alignment of the national framework with the requirements of the Convention, as well as to detect deficiencies, shortcomings, delays and/or ineffective regulations and persistent distortions at the level of existing primary and secondary legislation and administrative functioning and practice.
The thematic sections of the report focus on the fields of education and employment, reflect the positive developments in ensuring the right to accessibility for persons with disabilities, but also identify problems in the certification of disability as well as in the tax, social insurance and welfare treatment of persons with disabilities. Special reference is made to the problems encountered by children with disabilities, as well as the impact of the pandemic -and the administrative measures that were taken to contain it- on the rights of persons with disabilities.
In the present report as well, the Ombudsman reintroduces recommendations for the substantial transformation of the provisions of the Convention into regulations, indicatively mentions some of the Authority’s recommendations that were accepted and served as the basis for specific legislative interventions, evaluates the effective implementation of policies and highlights the degree of alertness and response of the administrative mechanism.
Source: Office of the Greek Ombudsman
