Book/Printed Material Comparative analysis : national laws protecting people with disabilities in selected foreign countries
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Image 1 of Comparative analysis : national laws protecting people with disabilities in selected foreign countries COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS NATIONAL LAWS PROTECTING PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES IN SELECTED FOREIGN COUNTRIES By Charles Mwalimu Senior Legal Specialist Eastern Law Division Legal Research Directorate Law Library Library of Congress SJD PHD Candidate…- Contributor: Law Library of Congress (U.S.). Global Legal Research Directorate - Mwalimu, Charles
- Date: 2003
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Image 2 of Comparative analysis : national laws protecting people with disabilities in selected foreign countries Contents Synopsis I General Introduction i Preliminaries ii Various Approaches to Subject Matter Analysis II World Wide View on Methodology in the Analysis of Disability Laws 1 Different Approaches to the Analysis…- Contributor: Law Library of Congress (U.S.). Global Legal Research Directorate - Mwalimu, Charles
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Image 3 of Comparative analysis : national laws protecting people with disabilities in selected foreign countries IV Todays Anti Discrimination Legislation A United States Canada and Australia 1 The United States 2 Canada 3 Australia B Europe C Disability Rights Under Islamic Law D Disability Rights Under Customary…- Contributor: Law Library of Congress (U.S.). Global Legal Research Directorate - Mwalimu, Charles
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Image 4 of Comparative analysis : national laws protecting people with disabilities in selected foreign countries 5 Telecommunications 4 Italy A Constitutional Provisions B Statutory Measures 5 The Netherlands A Constitutional Provisions B Statutory Measures 6 Poland A Constitutional Provisions B Statutory Measures 7 The Russian Federation A…- Contributor: Law Library of Congress (U.S.). Global Legal Research Directorate - Mwalimu, Charles
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Image 5 of Comparative analysis : national laws protecting people with disabilities in selected foreign countries 4 Transport and Accommodations 2 India A Constitutional Provisions B Statutory Measures 3 Japan A Constitutional Provisions B Statutory Measures 4 Pakistan A Constitutional Provisions B Statutory Measures i Employment ii Public…- Contributor: Law Library of Congress (U.S.). Global Legal Research Directorate - Mwalimu, Charles
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Image 6 of Comparative analysis : national laws protecting people with disabilities in selected foreign countries Synopsis This analysis is divided into six parts Part I covers the general introduction This portion includes preliminaries and various approaches to subject matter examination Part II reflects worldwide views on methodology…- Contributor: Law Library of Congress (U.S.). Global Legal Research Directorate - Mwalimu, Charles
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Image 7 of Comparative analysis : national laws protecting people with disabilities in selected foreign countries four broad major topical headings and the seven sub divisions within each and every one of the four major categories ii Various Approaches to Subject Matter Analysis A variety of approaches are…- Contributor: Law Library of Congress (U.S.). Global Legal Research Directorate - Mwalimu, Charles
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Image 8 of Comparative analysis : national laws protecting people with disabilities in selected foreign countries the guarantee of equality of opportunity by proscribing discrimination3 This approach obtains to legislation in Australia Canada Great Britain and New Zealand for example4 b Special Needs Based Special needs based aims…- Contributor: Law Library of Congress (U.S.). Global Legal Research Directorate - Mwalimu, Charles
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Image 9 of Comparative analysis : national laws protecting people with disabilities in selected foreign countries The interpretation of the ADA of equality is to place an emphasis on sameness and non discrimination that is the ADA mandates that people with disabilities must be treated in the same…- Contributor: Law Library of Congress (U.S.). Global Legal Research Directorate - Mwalimu, Charles
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Image 10 of Comparative analysis : national laws protecting people with disabilities in selected foreign countries The effect of an impairment is long term if 1 it has lasted at least 12 months 2 the period of which it lasts is likely to be at least 12 months…- Contributor: Law Library of Congress (U.S.). Global Legal Research Directorate - Mwalimu, Charles
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Image 11 of Comparative analysis : national laws protecting people with disabilities in selected foreign countries The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission EEOC 8 has defined physical or mental impairment to cover the following a Any physiological disorder or conditions cosmetic or disfigurement or anatomical loss affecting one or…- Contributor: Law Library of Congress (U.S.). Global Legal Research Directorate - Mwalimu, Charles
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Image 12 of Comparative analysis : national laws protecting people with disabilities in selected foreign countries protected by the Act 12 On the other hand the EEOC has defined substantially limits as follows a Unable to perform a major life activity that the average person in the population…- Contributor: Law Library of Congress (U.S.). Global Legal Research Directorate - Mwalimu, Charles
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Image 13 of Comparative analysis : national laws protecting people with disabilities in selected foreign countries iii Major Life Activity The term major life activity constitutes a function such as caring for oneself performing manual tasks walking seeing hearing breathing learning and working But this enumeration of subjects…- Contributor: Law Library of Congress (U.S.). Global Legal Research Directorate - Mwalimu, Charles
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Image 14 of Comparative analysis : national laws protecting people with disabilities in selected foreign countries interpreters and other similar accommodations for persons with disabilities21 vii Record of Impairment This provision was intended to ensure that individuals are not discriminated against because of a history of disability or…- Contributor: Law Library of Congress (U.S.). Global Legal Research Directorate - Mwalimu, Charles
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Image 15 of Comparative analysis : national laws protecting people with disabilities in selected foreign countries her piece has examined the quota system and anti discrimination legislation 26 She has also considered the reassessment of disability employment policy that is on going in some European countries such as…- Contributor: Law Library of Congress (U.S.). Global Legal Research Directorate - Mwalimu, Charles
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Image 16 of Comparative analysis : national laws protecting people with disabilities in selected foreign countries A consequence of the extension was that the concept of duty which had existed when the systems were exclusively targeted at veterans was lost and the new quotas became part of overall…- Contributor: Law Library of Congress (U.S.). Global Legal Research Directorate - Mwalimu, Charles
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Image 17 of Comparative analysis : national laws protecting people with disabilities in selected foreign countries that after three years employers were still not making the quota This mandate was to be supported with a fine for every position not occupied by disabled persons in each year Employers…- Contributor: Law Library of Congress (U.S.). Global Legal Research Directorate - Mwalimu, Charles
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Image 18 of Comparative analysis : national laws protecting people with disabilities in selected foreign countries employers with sixteen or more employees The quota could be adjusted as low as four percent or increased to ten percent The Germany quota system undoubtedly has made a greater contribution to…- Contributor: Law Library of Congress (U.S.). Global Legal Research Directorate - Mwalimu, Charles
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Image 19 of Comparative analysis : national laws protecting people with disabilities in selected foreign countries the long term due to a physical disability44 This definition closely follows the ADA The Japanese government recognizes 6 million people as having some form of disability or another whether it be…- Contributor: Law Library of Congress (U.S.). Global Legal Research Directorate - Mwalimu, Charles
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Image 20 of Comparative analysis : national laws protecting people with disabilities in selected foreign countries by the monthly levies gathered from non compliant employers of their respective quotas48 Today in Japan the employment quota lies at 18 for the private sector and 21 for the public sector…- Contributor: Law Library of Congress (U.S.). Global Legal Research Directorate - Mwalimu, Charles
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Image 21 of Comparative analysis : national laws protecting people with disabilities in selected foreign countries IV TODAYS ANTI DISCRIMINATION LEGISLATION i Introduction In Europe the past couple of years have seen increased attention paid by disability activists and policy makers to disability discrimination and the role legislation…- Contributor: Law Library of Congress (U.S.). Global Legal Research Directorate - Mwalimu, Charles
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Image 22 of Comparative analysis : national laws protecting people with disabilities in selected foreign countries The Civil Rights Act of 196455 prohibited discrimination on the basis of race color religion sex and national origin Thereafter many people including the disabled started seeing disability in the same vein…- Contributor: Law Library of Congress (U.S.). Global Legal Research Directorate - Mwalimu, Charles
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Image 23 of Comparative analysis : national laws protecting people with disabilities in selected foreign countries Canadian Human Rights Act 1985 also discussed in the report by Steve Clark6 For example section 15 of the Charter secures and guarantees the right to equal protection and equal benefit of…- Contributor: Law Library of Congress (U.S.). Global Legal Research Directorate - Mwalimu, Charles
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Image 24 of Comparative analysis : national laws protecting people with disabilities in selected foreign countries responsibility for its operation via the newly appointed Disability CommissionThe burden of proof that discrimination has occurred rests however with the disabled person63 In addition state laws though less important since the…- Contributor: Law Library of Congress (U.S.). Global Legal Research Directorate - Mwalimu, Charles
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Image 25 of Comparative analysis : national laws protecting people with disabilities in selected foreign countries noted as one of the first countries in Europe to extend legal protection to victims of disability discrimination Germany followed when it amended its Constitution to enshrine an equal protection clause which…- Contributor: Law Library of Congress (U.S.). Global Legal Research Directorate - Mwalimu, Charles
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Image 26 of Comparative analysis : national laws protecting people with disabilities in selected foreign countries In France however the French Parliament in 1990 adopted Law No9060276 concerning the protection of persons against discrimination on grounds of their state of health or handicap This law amended the Labor…- Contributor: Law Library of Congress (U.S.). Global Legal Research Directorate - Mwalimu, Charles
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Image 27 of Comparative analysis : national laws protecting people with disabilities in selected foreign countries The Quran in Chapter IV 127128 requires that the community of Islam is enjoined to be just in their dealing with women orphans children and all those whose weaknesses require special consideration…- Contributor: Law Library of Congress (U.S.). Global Legal Research Directorate - Mwalimu, Charles
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Image 28 of Comparative analysis : national laws protecting people with disabilities in selected foreign countries subject matter while preserving the integrity of the actual discourse of the disability law in these foreign jurisdictions The other preliminary point is that countries covered in this study reflect different systems…- Contributor: Law Library of Congress (U.S.). Global Legal Research Directorate - Mwalimu, Charles
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Image 29 of Comparative analysis : national laws protecting people with disabilities in selected foreign countries with disabilities In so far as the methodology of analysis employed here emphasizes the unique individual foreign law jurisdictional regulation of subject matter with respect to the rights of the disabled rather…- Contributor: Law Library of Congress (U.S.). Global Legal Research Directorate - Mwalimu, Charles
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Image 30 of Comparative analysis : national laws protecting people with disabilities in selected foreign countries B Statutory Regimes A number of legislative instruments have been promulgated in Argentina to deal with the basic rights of disabled persons These include Law No 2465796 as provided by Rodriguez Ferrand…- Contributor: Law Library of Congress (U.S.). Global Legal Research Directorate - Mwalimu, Charles
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Image 31 of Comparative analysis : national laws protecting people with disabilities in selected foreign countries Parallels with the ADA In terms of parallels with the ADA major topical arrangements with respect to employment public services and transportation public accommodation and services by private entities and telecommunications the…- Contributor: Law Library of Congress (U.S.). Global Legal Research Directorate - Mwalimu, Charles
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Image 32 of Comparative analysis : national laws protecting people with disabilities in selected foreign countries law report namely to capture the uniqueness of the laws in Argentina or any other foreign jurisdiction as presented by this foreign law specialist on this foreign country and on this foreign…- Contributor: Law Library of Congress (U.S.). Global Legal Research Directorate - Mwalimu, Charles
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Image 33 of Comparative analysis : national laws protecting people with disabilities in selected foreign countries these different provincial legislation Human rights commissions as quasijudicial tribunals enforce the human rights laws through binding orders that are enforceable with process and procedure for judicial review invested in the provincial…- Contributor: Law Library of Congress (U.S.). Global Legal Research Directorate - Mwalimu, Charles
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Image 34 of Comparative analysis : national laws protecting people with disabilities in selected foreign countries social security law is of public interest and shall insure against disability9 Indirect guarantee of these rights is also evident in the other portions of the Constitution which includes an equal protection…- Contributor: Law Library of Congress (U.S.). Global Legal Research Directorate - Mwalimu, Charles
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Image 35 of Comparative analysis : national laws protecting people with disabilities in selected foreign countries Mexico does not appear to render itself comparable to the ADA in terms of the four major headings and the seven sub divisions of subject area coverage identified with respect to the…- Contributor: Law Library of Congress (U.S.). Global Legal Research Directorate - Mwalimu, Charles
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Image 36 of Comparative analysis : national laws protecting people with disabilities in selected foreign countries 2 FRANCE A Constitutional Law There seems to be no constitutional provisions in France that guarantee the rights of the disabled This is because the French approach to new anti discrimination measures…- Contributor: Law Library of Congress (U.S.). Global Legal Research Directorate - Mwalimu, Charles
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Image 37 of Comparative analysis : national laws protecting people with disabilities in selected foreign countries 6 Right to vocational rehabilitation 7 Enforcement andor as in known in France protection against discrimination With respect to public servicetransportation French law covers education of disabled children But the subject of…- Contributor: Law Library of Congress (U.S.). Global Legal Research Directorate - Mwalimu, Charles
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Image 38 of Comparative analysis : national laws protecting people with disabilities in selected foreign countries employer obligations to hire the disabled and improve their working conditions ii Title 9 of the Social Code which codifies prior scattered provisions on rehabilitation and employment of the disabled It has…- Contributor: Law Library of Congress (U.S.). Global Legal Research Directorate - Mwalimu, Charles
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Image 39 of Comparative analysis : national laws protecting people with disabilities in selected foreign countries areas i Hiring requirements ii Definition of disability iii Compliance through payment of levies iv Enforcementsanctionspenalties under German law described as prohibition of discrimination and affirmative requirements v Legal remedies vi Administrative…- Contributor: Law Library of Congress (U.S.). Global Legal Research Directorate - Mwalimu, Charles
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Image 40 of Comparative analysis : national laws protecting people with disabilities in selected foreign countries without special difficulty and in principle without the help of others99 4 Telecommunications This aspect of German law comporting with the fourth category of ADA is also distinctly examined requiring telecommunications accessibility…- Contributor: Law Library of Congress (U.S.). Global Legal Research Directorate - Mwalimu, Charles
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Title
- Comparative analysis : national laws protecting people with disabilities in selected foreign countries
Names
- Mwalimu, Charles, author
- Law Library of Congress (U.S.). Global Legal Research Directorate, issuing body
Created / Published
- [Washington, D.C.] : The Law Library of Congress, Global Legal Research Directorate, 2003.
Headings
- - People with disabilities--Legal status, laws, etc
Notes
- - "June 2003."
- - Includes bibliographical references.
- - Description based on online resource; title from PDF cover (Law Library of Congress, viewed Sept. 21, 2022).
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- 2019670235
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- n1345286935
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