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The Rights of the Elderly - the disabled
2 - Protection of the disabled
The adoption of numerous measures to prevent the appearance
of disabilities:
- Progressive health policy.
- Legislation regarding the prevention of industrial accidents
and work-related illness.
- Prevention of road accidents and other common accidents.
- Creation, by a law of March 14, 1989, of regional commissions
for the handicapped.
- Ratification by Tunisia of International Labor Convention
n°159 pertaining to vocational training and employment of the handicapped, calling for mandatory drafting and
revision of national policy on employment and vocational rehabilitation of the handicapped (1989).
- Creation of a National Council for the Handicapped to
make recommendations regarding issues related to the prevention and early detection of handicaps and to education,
training, vocational rehabilitation and employment of the handicapped, and to propose programs and measures by
which to assure their protection and social integration (1988).
- Confirmation of the rights of the handicapped to total
social welfare coverage, encompassing the costs of health care, treatment, prosthetic devices and home care, free
care and hospitalization, assistance for the needy and home care.
- Creation of a center for vocational rehabilitation of
the motor handicapped and those with lifetime disablement because of accidents (1993).
- Increase in the number of centers for special education
and rehabilitation run by associations (the number of which has risen from 77 in 1987 to 164 in 1998).
- Introduction of a program of standing assistance for
the needy suffering from serious disablement (1989).
- Instituting of a program of rehabilitation at Specialized
Educational Centers.
- Creation of a national program to create sources of
income for handicapped people who are able to work (1989).
- Introduction of tax contributions to promote the handicapped,
collected on products of state monopoly and on postal rates (1989).
- Promotion of physical education and sports for the handicapped:
- The law of August 3, 1994 organizing and developing
physical education and sports activities devotes one section to the handicapped.
- The creation of a Tunisian Federation of Sports for
the Handicapped, in 1989, and of a National Center for High-Level Handicapped Athletes.
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