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The launching last Wednesday of a public consultation process covering the 2021 Act on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the 2021 Act to amend the Equal Opportunities (Persons with Disability) Act is yet another firm salvo for the overall cause of equality and inclusion in this country.
It is, actually, a resolute way of bringing several loose ends together, towards creating a final package that will help streamline the whole legal and administrative apparatus for the complete implementation of the UN convention.
Malta signed the convention way back in 2007 and ratified it five years later. Now, in this year’s decisive phase, we are proposing the absorption into our domestic law of those rights and structures that had not yet been addressed. It has been a long and winding road across different administrations but the realisation of this project will, no doubt, seal Malta’s strict adherence to an international convention based on the ri