Discrimination of those with disabilities in many countries is already prevalent; families of those children born with disabilities are often excluded from school for a multitude of reasons, including; public isolation from their families, lack of accessablity to get to school, lack of resources or accessablity in schools, and many children are abused.
Disabled children are often sold into slavery as beggers, thier disablity used first to cast them out by families and then again as a tool to increase their value as a comodity.
As a person who has seen the explotation of the disabled in numerous countries, and has worked with the disabled, as well as has seen a number of friends and family strive and achive in the face of disablity, I have seen the disparity of services and treatment and have counted my blessings that those with disablities in my life lived in the United States, where we are not perfect, nor without faults in our system, but were we look to see the ablity and not the disablity of a person. Thus over the years we have continued, and continue, to make improvements to our system and change sociteties view of those with all forms of disablity.
Great strides this year especially as the long awaited Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities received its 20th ratification on 3 April 2008, triggering the entry into force of the Convention and its Optional Protocol 30 days later, on May 12, 2008. Just this month we celebrated International Day of People with Disabilities. However many countries around the world place disablity issues on the back burner, it is up to developed nations and aid agencies to enusure that the issue of disablity is brought to the forefront, not only on paper, but in the form of sustainable solutions, and those children with disablites are not left behind.