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Since 2000, the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund has collected country-based laws that protect the rights of individuals with disabilities. DREDF is providing this collection of laws and summaries in order to foster sharing of information and encourage the international dialogue on disability anti-discrimination. We have made every effort to collect up-to-date and accurate information based on existing written and Internet sources, but we make no guarantee, undertaking or warranty regarding the accuracy, completeness or currency of the materials published herein. In all cases, users are referred to official legislative and parliamentary publications for the original legal texts and language. Go to the complete collection.

 

 

COUNTRY LAWS COMPILATION

Copyright/Disclaimer Notice - 10/00

 

The Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF) is providing this collection of laws and summaries free of charge, and solely for the purposes of fostering non-profit sharing of information and encouraging a continuing international dialogue on disability anti-discrimination. Every effort has been made to gather up-to-date and accurate information based on existing written and internet sources, but we remind our users of the difficulty of ascertaining the origin of many internet sources. DREDF does not invite reliance upon the following versions of legislation, and makes no guarantee, undertaking or warranty regarding the accuracy, completeness or currency of the materials published herein. In all cases, users are referred to official legislative and parliamentary publications for the original legal texts and language.

 

DREDF waives its own copyright reservation only for the non-commercial, personal use of these laws and translation summaries. This collection may not be sold, in whole or in part. DREDF also retains the right to revoke this general waiver altogether, or for specific persons or organizations. We have made a deliberate effort to use sources which have a policy of not objecting to the non-profit dissemination of their documents, but the publication or dissemination of these materials, even for non-commercial purposes, may still violate the legal rights of translators and other third parties. DREDF has made every effort to give credit to individuals responsible for translation or editorial work on the following laws wherever such have been identified, and we take no responsibility for your violation of third- party copyright through the use of these materials. The following list indicates the websites from which our documents were downloaded - please refer to each site's copyright policy where published, or get in touch with each site, for further information on the dissemination and publication of individual laws contained in this collection. Contact information for those individuals or organizations from whom we have obtained specific copyright permission is included at the end.

 

Most of our documents have been downloaded from websites organized or hosted by the following organizations/institutions; their home pages are listed beside them.

 

Okada & Sellin Translations, LLC
1950 Addison Street, Suite 101c Berkeley, CA
USA 94704
1-800-803-9896

The following individuals and organizations retain all copyright over their contributions:

Lewis Advokatbyre
St. Nygatan 28
111 27 Stockholm
tel: 08-411 6606
e-mail: paul.lappalainen@stockholm.mail.telia.com
Oceana Publications, Inc.
75 Main Street
Dobbs Ferry, NY
USA 10522
phone: (914) 693-8100
fax: (914) 693-0402

 

Any violations of third-party copyright in this compilation have been inadvertent, and will be removed immediately.