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Press Release | Holistic Review of the Persons with Disabilities Act 2008: Essential to the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 19 Sep 2019 1:55 pm

The Malaysian Bar is dismayed that persons with disabilities continue to face significant challenges in exercising their basic rights, even though a decade has passed since the coming into force of the Persons with Disabilities Act 2008 ("PWD Act").
 
The PWD Act was enacted to implement the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities ("Convention") to which Malaysia is a state party.  While it was a significant step forward to uphold the rights of persons with disabilities in this country, the PWD Act is neither comprehensive nor sufficiently inclusive.  The PWD Act only incorporates selected objectives from the Convention, and its relatively narrow language does not adopt the full spirit and intent of the Convention.
 
Ten years on, the Malaysian Bar continues to call on the Government to sign and ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention, and to advocate for a review of the PWD Act.  The PWD Act as it stands is marred with omissions, including the lack of specific provisions that prohibit discrimination against disabled persons; the absence of provisions for judicial remedies and penalties for parties who fail to comply with the PWD Act; and an express exclusion of the Government from being sued for any wrongdoing. 
 
These concerns must be addressed in order to strengthen the PWD Act, in order for it to deliver on the rights of persons with disabilities.  The aim of such a review of the PWD Act should always be to ensure its effectiveness in achieving the objectives of providing rehabilitation, self–development, and self–reliance of persons with disabilities, and to enable their integration into mainstream society. 
 
The time for a holistic review of the PWD Act is at hand, and the Malaysian Bar stands ready to lend its expertise to assist the Government to make the necessary amendments to the PWD Act, as soon as possible.  
 
Abdul Fareed Abdul Gafoor 
President 
Malaysian Bar
 
19 September 2019

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