INEQUALITY TO PERSONS

WITH DISABILITIES
People with disabilities experience
inequality for example when people with
disabilities are denied equal access to
health care, employment, education or
political participation because of their
disability.

In India, labels such as

disability, crippled, blind,
and deaf are used
synonymously. Often
these terms are used at
people as insults.
In culture that looks up to bodily perfection
all deviations from the perfect body signify
abnormally, defect, and distortion. Labels
such as bechara (poor thing) accentuate (the
victim status) for disabled person and the
roots of such attitudes lie in cultural
conceptions.
 In American History:
The Disability Rights Movement (1960’s) – is
a movement for equal opportunities and rights
for people across the disability spectrum.

The rights of disabled persons (1975)

declared by General Assembly of the United
Nations.

In our country:
The Republic Act 7277 or the “Magna Carta for Disabled Persons.”
An act providing for the rehabilitation, self-development and self-reliance of
disabled persons and their integration into the mainstream of society and for
other purposes.
Inequality to poor people
■ In the Philippines, where more than a quarter
of the country's population of 92.3 million
lives below the poverty line, economic and
social inequality is a major problem.

Key factors of poverty:

1. Unemployment
2. Low levels of education and skills
3. The size and type of family
4. Gender
5. Disability
6. Being a member of minority groups and immigrants/undocumented migrants
7. Living in a remote or very disadvantaged community
8. Dependence on government dole-outs