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The Persons with Disability Act 715 was passed in 2006 to uphold rights such as unrestricted access to public places and buildings, free healthcare, employment, education, and transportation. Ghana signed the United Nations Convention on the Right of People with Disabilities in 2007 and ratified it in 2012. Nonetheless, persons…
“We have women with disability who go to seek sexual reproductive healthcare services when they are pregnant and are given wrong medications and the foetuses in their wombs are aborted simply because the doctors cannot communicate to them in accessible forms.” Mr Alexander Bankole Williams, Chairman of the Advocacy Committee…