Human Rights for Persons With Disabilities and the Law

The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) guarantees fundamental human rights to all persons with disabilities (PWDs). These rights are put into law in the Constitution of Uganda.

This is what the Constitution of the Republic of Uganda, 1995 (see The State House of Uganda for more information) has to say about the rights of PWDs. In the Social and Economic Objectives:

XVI. Recognition of the dignity of persons with disabilities.

Society and the State shall recognise the right of persons with disabilities to respect and human dignity

And in Chapter Four—Protection and Promotion of Fundamental and Other Human Rights and Freedoms the Constitution contains the following Articles:

32. Affirmative action in favour of marginalised groups. 

(1) Notwithstanding anything in this Constitution, the State shall take affirmative action in favour of groups marginalised on the basis of gender, age, disability or any other reason created by history, tradition or custom, for the purpose of redressing imbalances which exist against them. 

(2) Parliament shall make relevant laws, including laws for the establishment of an equal opportunities commission, for the purpose of giving full effect to clause (1) of this article.

35. Rights of persons with disabilities. 

(1) Persons with disabilities have a right to respect and human dignity, and the State and society shall take appropriate measures to ensure that they realise their full mental and physical potential. 

(2) Parliament shall enact laws appropriate for the protection of persons with disabilities.

 Know your rights, don't allow discrimination.

Angelo Kakande, On Euphemisms of Exclusion: Disability is/as a Synonym for Dependency, 2016

Articles 32 and 35 of the Constitution of Uganda say that the Government must make laws to protect PWDs. The main law that supports the rights of PWDs is called the Persons with Disabilities Act 2006 (PWDA). The PWDA aims at providing equal opportunities and eliminating all forms of discrimination against PWDs. This is what the PWDA says:

THE PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES ACT, 2006 AN ACT to Provide a Comprehensive Legal Protection for Persons With Disabilities in accordance with Article 32 and 35 of The Constitution; to make Provisions for the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against Persons with Disability towards Equalization of Opportunities and For Related Matters.

By law you can demand your rights, you are supported by good legislation, don't stand for inequality and  discrimination.