by Oui
Sun Jun 25th, 2023 at 08:58:04 AM EST
Where in the Dutch shun kids with disabilities and left behind in education and the workplace ...
UZBEKISTAN
Skills to last a lifetime: How girls in Uzbekistan are learning tech and helping others | UNSDG |
The programme specifically focuses on accessible person-centered and age-appropriate services in the community, aimed at supporting the autonomy and inclusion of children, women and men with disabilities and prevention of institutionalization, violence and abuse. Development of early identification and early intervention services for children with disabilities will be one of the focus areas of the programme, as will the inclusion of women and girls with disabilities in programmes addressing gender-based violence. [Source: UN Partnership on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities]
World Bank presents a study on challenges for persons with disabilities in Uzbekistan
Raise awareness of people with disabilities about their rights enshrined in national legislation and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, ratified by Uzbekistan on June 7, 2021. We were able to achieve some results in empowering people with disabilities through the production of accessible information products - Sharoit+ audio podcasts, video interviews and social videos on the topic of disability and inclusion.
Public Association of Disabled People in Tashkent city "SHAROIT PLUS" (NGO)
I was struck by a short documentary illustrating the facilities and program for teenage girls in Uzbekistan with disabilities.
Dutch government is violating rights of disabled under UN convention | Dutch News - Dec. 3, 2019 |
People with disabilities and the chronically ill are poorer, and still finding it difficult to access care, support and special education despite the ratification of the UN Convention of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities by the Netherlands in 2016.
The findings are part of a report compiled by five special interest groups who call themselves the Alliance UN Convention and is based on interviews with people with disabilities as well as specialist organisations and a survey.
The report states that legislation introduced in 2015 under which employers were given a bonus to employ disabled people has failed and that unemployment among the disabled increased by a quarter between 2012 and 2017.
Last month, the SCP think-tank also said the government scheme to integrate people with mental and physical disabilities into the regular workforce and phase out sheltered work schemes has largely failed.
Inequality in Dutch society a stubborn phenomena
Highly educated people call the shots in the Netherlands | NRC Courant - March 12, 2023 |
Democratic deficit The Netherlands is a class society, according to an SCP report this week. Right before the elections, it shows how much democracy revolves around the upper layers. "There are plutocratic traits."
The gap exists, and it persists. The Netherlands, writes the Social and Cultural Planning Office (SCP) this week in the report Contemporary Inequality has major social and economic differences, and those differences are not getting smaller. Not only income, but also social, personal and cultural factors play a role. Your appearance, your vocabulary, your command of English, your network: these factors also determine your place on the social ladder.
What is striking about the research is how this gap translates politically. The working upper class (19.9 percent of the population), the group that has everything in place according to the criteria of the SCP, will vote most actively. They vote for parties such as the VVD, D66 and GroenLinks. And among the two most vulnerable groups, according to the SCP, the 'insecure workers' (10 percent) and the 'precariat' (6.3 percent), the percentage of non-voters is actually the highest. If they do vote at all, it is usually for flank parties such as the PVV or Denk.
The most vulnerable social groups in the Netherlands are the most orphaned politically. Nearly two-thirds of the respondents in the bottom three classes, thirty-four percent of the electorate, think they have no influence on what 'politics' does. The most vulnerable class, the precariat, votes by far the least of the seven classes and consists of an above average number of women, the elderly and people with a migration background. Thirty percent of this group say they do not vote, compared to four and five percent of the working or renting upper class - the structural winners in the class system.
These groups are therefore not only disadvantaged and feel most distant from The Hague, but they are also under-represented in the political process. And that is a warning for the elections for the Provincial Council next Wednesday: are the interests of people who need political intervention the most sufficiently taken into account by the parties that can rely on loyal voter groups? Groups that are already doing well?
The highly educated are not only over-represented in politics and the civil service, but the policy is also better attuned to the wishes of the upper classes than those of the practically educated, according to research by political scientist Wouter Schakel and Daphne van der Plas. In addition to voting behaviour, the strong lobbying power of the upper classes and the declining influence of the trade unions also explain why the (socio-culturally) wealthy Dutch people get their way much more often.
Summary Contemporary Inequality
The post-industrial class structure based on four types of capital - Disparities in the Netherlands 2023.
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Gender gap in Dutch society
The Netherlands is once again well below its neighbouring countries on the annual Global Gender Gap Index. As last year, the Netherlands is in 28th place in the ranking, while countries such as Belgium, Germany and the Nordic lands are in the top 10.
The UN has found the Netherlands to be in violation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child | March 22, 2022 |
According to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, the Netherlands are in violation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. The committee recommended that the Dutch government increase its effort to prevent and address family homelessness and child poverty. Among other requests, the committee recommended that the Dutch government take measures to provide families in need with adequate and long-term social housing and other support measures, with a view to reducing homelessness and guaranteeing children's access to adequate housing.
The committee also recommend the government to prohibit the separation of children from their families and their placement in alternative care on the basis of only the economic situation of those families, including where parents are staying in homeless shelters, and ensure that children staying in such shelters receive comprehensive support.
Benefits tax scandal hits the poorest families tearing families apart.
Dutch Cabinet Rutte and Endemic Racism
Between Rutte III and return as Rutte IV
The Dutch Stop Funding Palestinian NGO | Jan. 16, 2022 |
Decision made by caretaker cabinet of Rutte III, in last days before new ministers in cabinet Rutte IV would be sworn in. Cowards.
The Dutch VVD (Rutte I) had chosen a "Likud" member as Foreign Minister Uri Rosenthal. He served two years until Nov. 5, 2012.
