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• Argentina - Ley 22.431, y decreto reglamentario 498/83

• Australia 1 - Disability Discrimination Act 1992

• Australia 2 - Aged or Disabled Persons Homes Act, 1989

• Australia 3 - Aged or Disabled Persons Care Act, 1954

• Australia 4 - Disability Services Act, 1986

• Australia 5 - Disability Services Amendment (Improved Quality Assurance) Act, 2002

• Australia 6 - Disability Discrimination Amendment (Education Standards) Act, 2005

• Australia 7 - Social Security (Disability and Sickness Support Amendment) Act, 1991

• Australia 8 - Veterans' Entitlements Amendment (Disability, War Widow, and War Widower Pensions) Act, 2007

• Australia 9 - Federal Magistrates Amendment (Disability and Death Benefits) Act, 2007

• Australia 10 - Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs Legislation Amendment (Child Disability Assistance) Act 2007

• Australia 11 - Disability Services (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Act 1986

• Australia 12 - Human Services and Health Legislation Amendment Act 1994

• Australia 13 - Mental Health And Related Services Assistance Act 1973

• Australia 14 - Civil Aviation Amendment Act 2005

• Australia 15 - Age Discrimination (Consequential Provisions) Act 2004

• Australia 16 - Defence Legislation Amendment Act (No. 1) 1999

• Australia 17 - Employment Education and Training Act

• Bolivia 1 - Ley no. 1678 (1995), and English summary

• Bolivia 2 - Article 71 of the Bolivian Constitution (Spanish)

• Bolivia 3 - Supreme Decree 27477

• Bolivia 4 -Validation of disability for military service

• Bolivia 5 - Financial aid to the indigent blind

• Bolivia 6 - Equal Opportunity Plan for people with disability

• Bolivia 7 - Adoption of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

• Bolivia 8 - Decree number 29608 Amending and supplementing Supreme Decree 27477 promoting the protection, integration, promotion and job security for people with disabilities

• Brazil - Constitution (1988)

• Bulgaria - Law for Protection, Rehabilitation and Social Integration of Disabled (including 2002 amendments)

• Canada 1 - Constitution - Charter of Rights & Freedoms (1982)

• Canada 2 - Canadian Human Rights Act

• Canada 3 - Employment Equity Act

• Cambodia - Law on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2009

• Chile - Ley no. 19.284 (1994), and English summary

• China 1 - Law of the People's Republic of China on the Protection of Disabled Persons

• China 2 - Regulations on the Education of Persons with Disabilities (1994)

• China 3 - Regulations on the Employment of People with Disabilities (2007)

• China 4 - Law of the People's Republic of China on the Protection of Persons with Disabilities (adopted 1990, revised in 2008)

• Colombia - Ley no. 361 DE 1997

• Costa Rica 1 - Ley no. 7600 (May 29, 1996),

• Costa Rica 2 - Law no. 7600 (May 29, 1996) English translation

• Costa Rica 3 - Law 5347 National Advisory of Rehabilitation and Special Education

• Costa Rica 4 - Adoption Act of 7948 American Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against persons with disabilities.

• Costa Rica 5 - Pension for diables persons with dependent

• Costa Rica 6 - Amendments to the national law of the Board of Blind No. 2171 30 October 1957 and its ammendments and additions to a new article

• Costa Rica 7 - Act. 7219 adopted the Convention on Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment of Disabled Persons.

• Costa Rica 8 - Decree no. 19101-S-MEP-TSS-PLAN for establishing national policies for the prevention of impairment and disability and comprehensive rehabilitation.

• Costa Rica 9 - Decree 6573-P of the presidency to issue regulations care facilities for elderly and disabled.

• Costa Rica 10 - Act 4762 creates the General Directorate of Social Rehabilitation.

• Dominican Republic 1 - Act. 42-2000, the Disability Act.

• Dominican Republic 2 - Decree no. 107/95 establishing standards to ensure equal opportunities and employment rights for people with physical, mental or sensory.

• Dominican Republic 3 - Act. 21-91 recognizing the rights and duties of persons with physical, sensory and / or mental disabilities.

• Dominican Republic 4 - Act. 53, which is encouraged by the employment of blind people.

• Ecuador 1 - Ley Nº 2000-25, Ley sobre Discapacidades del Ecuador

• Ecuador 2 - Reglamento general a la Ley de Discapacidades, effective January 14, 2003

• Ecuador 3 - Ley sobre discapacidades no. 180 (1992), and English summary (now repealed)

• Ecuador 4 - Disabilities Act No. 180 (1992)

• Ecuador 5 - Disabled Act (2001)

• Ecuador 6 - Decree no. 1437 by which dictates the General Rules of the Disabilities Act.

• Ecuador 7 - Act. 97 of Presidential Decree No. reformatory. 1397, concerning the rights of the blind

• Ecuador 8 - Regulations for the use of credit lines for disability organizations.

• Ecuador 9 - Agreement no. 702-A, the Ministry of Social Welfare, laying dictate policies for the development of plans and programs of the National Action concerning Disabled Persons in Ecuador.

• Ecuador 10 - Act. 150 with the decree establishing constant in Article 12 of the law protecting the disabled.

• Ecuador 11 - Official Record #198 - Reform Act of the Labor Code

• Ecuador 12 - Law of the Physical Culture, Sports, and Recreation

• Egypt 1 - Law No. 112 of 1980 on a Universal Social Security Scheme

• Egypt 2 - Law No. 126 of 2008 amending the provisions of the Child Law

• Egypt 3 - Social Insurance Law No. 92 of 1959

• Egypt 4 - The Child Act

• El Salvador 1 - Ley de equiparcion de oportunidades para las personas con discapacidad

• El Salvador 2 - Regulation of Law Equality of Opportunity for People With Disabilities

• El Salvador 3 - Decree no. 247 on the obligation to employ people with physical limitations.

• El Salvador 4 - Decree no. 791 of the Legislative Assembly, which requires employers to protect and professional rehabilitation of disabled personnel of the Armed Forces.

• El Salvador 5 - Decree no. 21 establishing the Interinstitutional Committee for the professional integration of disabled people.

• Ethiopia 1 - The Rights of Disabled Persons to Employment Proclamation, no. 101/1994

• Ethiopia 2 - Labour Proclamation, no. 42 of 1993 - extracts

• Ethiopia 3 - The Right of Disabled Persons to Employment Proclamation, 1994

• Ethiopia 4 - Labour Proclamation No. 377, 2003

• Fiji 1 - Fiji Constitution (1988)

• Fiji 2 - Human Rights Commission Act 1999

• Fiji 3 - Fiji National Council of Disabled Persons Act 1994

• Finland - Constitution (2000)

• France 1 - Code Penal - extracts

• France 2 - Code de Travail - extracts

• France 3 - Loi no. 91-663 (13 July 1991)

• France 4 - Decree no. 98-543

• France 5 - Decree no. 99-756

• France 6 - Decree no. 99-757

• Gambia 1 - Constitution (1996 Draft)

• Gambia 2 - Injuries Compensation Act, 1990

• Germany 1 - Constitution (1949, amendments to 1998)

• Germany 2 - Severely Handicapped Persons Act - extracts (1986)

• Ghana1 - Constitution (1992)

• Ghana 2 - The Disabled Persons Act 1993

• Ghana 3 - Persons with Disability Act, 2006 (Act 715)

• Ghana 4 - Labour Act, 2003

• Ghana 5 - Workmen's Compensation Act, 1987

• Guatemala - Law of Attention to Persons with Disabilities, 135-1996

• Honduras 1 - Decree no. 160-2005 laying gives the Equity Act and integral development for persons with disabilities.

• Honduras 2 - Act to promote employment of disabled persons (Decree no. 17-91).

• Honduras 3 - Decree no. 184-87 - Law on Rehabilitation of the Handicapped

• Honduras 4 - Decree no. 926 establishing the National Council for Comprehensive Rehabilitation

• Honduras 5 - Vocational Rehabilitation (Disabled) Recommendation, 1955

• Hong Kong 1 - Ordinance on Disability, c. 487 (1990)

• Hong Kong 2 - Disability Discrimination Ordinance (1995)

• Hungary 1 - Constitution (1949, amendments to 1997)

• Hungary 2 - Equalization Opportunity Law (Act no. XXVI of 1998)

• India - Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights & Full Participation) Act,1995 (no. 1 of 1996)

• Indonesia - Law 4/1997 on People with Disabilities (1994)

• Ireland - Employment Equality Act (no. 21 of 1998)

• Ireland - Equal Status Act, 2000

• Ireland - National Disability Authority Act, 1999

• Israel - Equal Rights for People with Disabilities Law, 5758-1998

• Japan 1 - Human Resources Development Promotion Law

• Japan 2 - Law for the Welfare of Physically Disabled Persons (1949, amended 1986)

• Japan 3 - The Mental Health and Mentally Disabled Persons Welfare Law (1950, Amended 1993)

• Japan 4 - Law for the Welfare of Mentally Disabled Persons (1960)

• Japan 5 - Law for Employment Promotion and Matters related to Disabled Persons (1960, amended in 2005)

• Japan 6 - Basic Law on Persons with Disabilities (1970, amended 2004)

• Japan 7 - Act for Research, Development, and Dissemination of Assistive Devices (1993)

• Japan 8 - Act for Promotion of Use of Communication and Broadcasting Services by Disabled Persons (1993)

• Japan 9 - Services and Supports for Persons with Disabilities Act (2005)

• Japan 10 - The Act on Buildings Accessible and Usable for the Elderly and Physically Disabled (June, 1994)

• Japan 11 - Law concerning the Payment of Special Disability Benefit for Persons with Special Disability (2004)

• Japan 12 - Act on Mental Health and Welfare 1998

• Japan 13 - Law for the Support of Developmentally Disabled persons (2004)

• Japan 14 - Law on the Facilitation of Movement for Aged and Handicapped Persons (2006)

• Japan 15 - Law to support the Independence of Persons with Disabilities (2005)

• Jordan - Law for the Welfare of Disabled Persons, no. 12 of 1993

• Kenya 1 - National Social Security Fund (Amendment) Act, 1997

• Kenya 2 - National Social Security Fund Act, 1965

• Kenya 3 - Persons with Disabilities Act, 2003

• Kenya 4 - The Regulation of Wages and Conditions of Employment Act, 1951

• Kenya 5 - The Work Injury Benefits Act

• Korea 1 - Welfare law for Persons with Disabilities (no. 4179, Dec. 30, 1989)

• Korea 2 - Act Relating to Employment Promotion, etc. of the Handicapped (no. 4129, Jan. 15, 1990)

• Korea 3 - The Special Education Promotion law (amended on Jan. 7, 1994)

• Korea 4 - Anti-Discrimination against and Remedies for Persons with Disabilities Act (2007)

• Korea 5 - Welfare for Persons with Disabilities Act (WPWDA) 1989

• Korea 6 - Special Education Promotion Act (SEPA) in 1977. SEPA is abolished in 2007 and the Act on the Special Education for Individuals with Disabilities and the Like is enacted.

• Korea 7 - Act on Mobility Convenience of Mobility Vulnerable (2005)

• Korea 8 - Act on Facilities Improvement for Persons with disabilities (1997)

• Korea 9 - Act on Employment Promotion and Vocational Rehabilitation for Disabled Persons (2007)

• Korea 11 - Anti-Discrimination Against and Remedies for Persons with Disabilities Act (2007)

• Lao People's Democratic Republic - Decree on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities of the Lao People's Democratic Republic (2007)

• Liberia - Labour Practices Law

• Libya 1 - Disabled Persons Law No. 3

• Libya 2 - Law No. 13 of 1980 on Social Security

• Libya 3 - Law No. 20 of 1998 on the Social Care Fund

• Libya 4 - Law No. 5 of 1987 on disabled persons

• Luxembourg 1 - Loi sur les travailleurs handicapes (Nov. 12 1991), and English summary

• Luxembourg 2 - Code Penal - extracts (ss. 444 & 453-58) (1997), and English summary

• Madagascar 1 - Loi no. 97-044 sur les personnes handicapees

• Madagascar 2 - Code de Travail - extracts (1994)

• Malawi 1 - Constitution (1994)

• Malawi 2 - No. 48 of 1971

• Malawi 3 - Handicapped Persons Act, 1971

• Malawi 4 - Worker's Compensation Act

• Malaysia - Persons with Disabilities Act (2008)

• Malta - Equal Opportunities (Persons with Disability) Act (2000)

• Mauritius 1 - Training and Employment of Disabled Persons Act, 1996

• Mauritius 2 - Employment of Disabled Persons Act, 1988

• Mauritius 3 - National Pensions (Amendment) Act, 1987

• Mauritius 4 - The Building (Amendment) Act, 1999

• Mauritius 5 - Training and employment of Disabled Persons Act, 1996

• Mauritius 6 - Trust Fund for Disabled Persons Act, 1988

• Mauritius 7 - Unemployment Hardship Relief (Amendment) Act 1990

• Mexico - Lay Para Las Personas Con Discapacidad Del Distrito Federal

• Namibia 1 - Labour Act 1992 - extracts

• Namibia 2 - Affirmative Action (Employment) Act, 1998

• Namibia 3 - Namibian HIV/AIDS Charter of Rights, 2000

• Namibia 4 - National Disability Council Act, 2004

• Namibia 5 - National Pensions Act, 1992

• Netherlands - Act on Equal Treatment on the Grounds of Handicap or Chronic Illness (2003)

• New Zealand 1 - Human Rights Act, 1993

• New Zealand 2 - Human Rights Amendment Act of 2001

• New Zealand 3 - Disabled Persons Employment Promotion (Repeal and Related Matters) Bill (18 May 2004, No. 138-1)

• New Zealand 4 - Disabled Persons Community Welfare Act 1975

• New Zealand 5 - Disability (United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities) Act 2008

• New Zealand 6 - Health and Disability Services (Saftey) Act 2001

• New Zealand 7 - Intellectual Disability (Compulsory Care and Rehabilitation) Act 2003

• New Zealand 8 - New Zealand Public Health and Disabilty Act 200

• New Zealand 9 - Health and Disability Commissionaer Act 1994

• Nicaragua - Ley no. 202 (1995)

• Nicaragua - Decreto No. 50 - 97 (1997)

• Nigeria 1 - Nigerians with Disability Decree 1993

• Nigeria 2 - National Commission for Rehabilitation Act, 1969

• Nigeria 3 - National Provident Fund Act, 1961

• Nigeria 4 - Nigerians with Disability Decree, 1993

• Palestinian Territory - Law No. (4) for the year 1999 On the Rights of the Disabled

• Panama 1 - Codigo de la familia, Ley no. 3, may 17, 1994 - extracts, and English summary

• Panama 2 - Resolved Vol. 606 AR-256 Establishing the Office of Equal Opportunity.

• Panama 3 - Executive Decree 103 which created the National Secretariat for Social Integration of Persons with Disabilities and the National Advisory Council for the Social Integration of Persons with Disabilities.

• Panama 4 - Ley 42 which sets the equalization of opportunities for people with disabilities

• Paraguay 1 - LABOUR CODE OF 1961 (abstract)

• Paraguay 2 - POLITICAL CONSITUTION OF 1992 (abstracts)

• Paraguay 3 - Act. 36/90 adopting the Convention on Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment of Disabled Persons (Convention no. 159)

• Paraguay 4 - Act. 780 of 30 November 1979 establishing the National Institute of exceptional individuals protection

• Philippines 1 - Magna Carta for the Disabled

• Philippines 2 - Magna Carta for Persons with Disabilities (1992)

• Peru 1 - Ley No. 27050 - Ley General de la Persona con Discapacidad

• Peru 2 - Supreme Decree No. 102-204-EF. Set the scale to be taken into account in applying the additional percentage on the salaries paid to disabled persons who are entitled to income-producing third rate employing disabled people. It also provides methods for certifying the condition of disability.

• Peru 3 - Wage Law. 949 per amending the Law on income tax to pay considering the deduction provided for in Article 35 of the General Law on Persons with Disabilities.

• Peru 4 - Act. 28,164 amending several articles of Law no. 27050, General Law of Persons with Disabilities.

• Peru 5 - Supreme Decree no. 001-2003-TR establishing the Registry of Companies Promote Persons with Disabilities.

• Peru 6 - Act. 27,139 amending article 6. of the Act. General Law for 27,050 disabled.

• Peru 7 - Engagement. RVMI-010-90, dated 26 January 1990 approving the rules of organization and functions of the National Institute of Rehabilitation.

• Peru 8 - Presidential Decree no. 001-89-SA which provides that disabled persons can access the vacancies in the three occupational groups that exist in public sector bodies.

• Peru 9 - Ministerial resolution no. 474-88-TR laying people have visual impairment and / or physical limitation in positions of telephone operators working in the sector.

• Peru 10 - Presidential Decree no. 037-88-TR for approving the regulations of law no. 24,759 (on the protection, care and occupational rehabilitation of disabled and legal regime governing the business of the disabled).

• Peru 11 - Act. 24,759, on Business Conditions of Disabled

• Peru 12 - Resolucin ministerial nm. 398-86-TR por la que se aprueba el reglamento interno para el funcionamiento de la Comisin Nacional de Apoyo a la Colocacin Selectiva.

• Peru 13 - Act. 24,067 shares on the regulation of health, education, social work and advocacy on issues of promotion and delivery of services prevented in order to achieve social integration.

• Peru 14 - Law 23,285 of work for people with physical, sensory and intellectual.

• Seychelles 1 - National Council for Disabled Persons Act, 1994

• Seychelles 2 - Seychelles Pension Scheme

• Seychelles 3 - Social Security (Amendment) Act, 1980

• Seychelles 1 - Social Security Act, 1987

• Sierra Leone - National Security and Insurance Trust Act, 2001

• Singapore - 1990 Barrier Free Accessibility Code

• Scotland 1 - Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (c. 50)

• Scotland 2 - Disability Discrimination (Services & Premises) Regulations 1996

• Scotland 3 - Disability Rights Commission Act 1999 (c. 17)

• South Africa 1 - Constitution - Bill of Rights (1996)

• South Africa 2 - Employment Equity Bill (B60-98)

• South Africa 3 - Blind Persons Act, 1968

• South Africa 4 - Disability Grants Act, 1968

• South Africa 5 - Employment Equity Act 1998

• South Africa 6 - Second Pension Laws Amendment Act, 1970

• South Africa 7 - Social Pensions Act

• South Africa 8 - Special Pensions Amendment Act, 1998

• South Africa 9 - Welfare Laws Amendment Act, 1997

• South Africa 10 - Workmen's Compensation Act, 1941

• Spain 1 - ACT NO. 8, TO PROMULGATE A WORKER'S CHARTER

• Spain 2 - Ley 51/2003 - de igualdad oportunidades, no discriminación y accesibilidad universal de las personas con discapacidad

• Sri Lanka - 1996 Protection of Persons with Disabilities Law

• Sweden 1 - Act Concerning Support & Service for Persons with Certain Functional Impairments, SFS 1993: 387

• Sudan - Child Act, 2004

• Swaziland - Workmen's Compensation Act, 1983

• Sweden 2 - Law on a Ban Against Discrmination Disabled Persons in Working Life, 1999- 132

• Sweden 3 - Act Prohibiting Discrimination, SFS 2003: 307

• Switzerland - Constitution (2000)

• Sri Lanka 1 - Protection of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (1996, amended 2003)

• Sri Lanka 2 - Rehabilitation of the Visually Handicapped Trust Fund Act (1992)

• Taiwan - People with Disabilities Rights Protection Act 1980

• Tanzania 1 - National Employment Promotion Service Act, 1999

• Tanzania 2 - The Disabled Persons (Care and Maintenance) Act No. 3 of 1982

• Tanzania 3 - The Disabled Persons (Employment) Act No. 2 of 1982

• Tanzania 4 - The Workers Compensation Act, 2008

• Tanzania 5 - Zanzibar Social Security Fund Act, 1998

• Thailand 1 - 1991 Rehabilitation of Disabled Persons Act

• Thailand 2 - The Persons with Disabilities Empowerment Act B.E. 2550 (2007)

• Thailand 3 - The Persons with Disabilities Education Act B.E. 2551 (2008)

• Thailand 4 - The Declaration on Rights for People with Disabilities in Thailand (1998)

• Thailand 5 - Rehabilitation of Disabled Persons Act B.E.2534 1991

• Uganda 1 - Constitution (1995)

• Uganda 2 - Children's Act

• Uganda 3 - Civil Procedure Act

• Uganda 4 - The Disabled Persons Act, 2006

• Uganda 5 - The Geneva Conventions Act

• Uganda 6 - The Movement Act

• Uganda 7 - The National Council for Disability Act, 2003

• Uganda 8 - Traffic and Road Safety Act 1998

• Uganda 9 - Trial on Indictments Act

• Uganda 10 - Uganda National Institute for Special Education Act

• Uganda 11 - Universal Primary Education Act, 1996

• Uruguay - Ley 16.095 - Establécese un sistema para asegurarles una protección integral a discapacitades

• UK 1 - Disability Discrimination Act 1995

• UK 2 - Disability Rights Act 1999

• UK 3 - Northern Ireland, Disability Discrimination Regulations 1996

• UK 4 - Disability Rights Act 2005

• UK 5 - Special Educational Needs and Disability Act 2001

• USA 1 - The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA)

• USA 2 - ADA Ammendments Act of 2008

• Venezuela - Ley para la integracion de las personas incapacitadas (Aug. 15, 1993)

• Venezuela - Law for People with disability

• Vietnam 1 - Ordinance on Disabled Persons (1998)

• Vietnam 2 - The Barrier-Free Access Code and Standards (2002)

• Zambia 1 - The Persons with Disabilities Act 1996

• Zambia 2 - Handicapped Persons Act, 1968

• Zambia 4 - Worker's Compensation Act, 1999

• Zimbabwe 1 - Disabled Persons Act 1992

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