The Committee on Matters of Pensioners, Veterans and Persons with Disabilities recommends that the Parliament should adopt as a basis and in entirety the draft law on amendments to several legislative acts of Ukraine re protection of rights of the disabled

Information Department of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Secretariat
25 November 2013, 15:42

During the meeting of the Committee on November 20, 2013, it was noted that the bill (Reg. No. 3640) aims at protecting of the disabled from limiting their rights on the basis of disability. 

The bill suggests:

amend article 2 of the Law “On the Fundamentals of Social Protection of the Disabled of Ukraine” by stipulating that the term “discrimination on the basis of disability” is used in the meaning provided in the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and in the Law “On the Basis of Prevention and Counteraction to corruption in Ukraine”;  

amend article 161 of the Criminal Code.