/ world today news/ The Institute for Modern Politics (IMP) filed a complaint with the Commission for Protection against Discrimination against the National Assembly for an inaccessible environment for people with disabilities, as the Parliament building on “National Assembly” Square is not accessible to citizens with disabilities .
There is no access to the East and West Halls, as well as to the visitor’s boxes. On the ground floor there are aluminum ramps which are extremely sharp and unusable, and access to the ‘Hall of Mirrors’, the Parliament Chair and the toilets is ‘solved’ by a very small and virtually unusable platform designed to give the illusion of access, and not actually provide one, reported the IMP.
The Institute for Modern Politics recalls that all public buildings, including Parliament, had to become accessible by December 31, 2006, according to Paragraph 6 of the Transitional and Final Provisions of the Disability Integration Act. Pursuant to the same law in Art. 4, item 4, it is also explicitly emphasized that the integration of people with disabilities is also carried out by means of an accessible architectural environment. In addition, the state has a commitment to the accessible environment and in view of Art. 9 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which was ratified by the National Assembly in 2012.
“How do we want public buildings, institutions, schools, etc. to be accessible when the institution that created and ratified the legislation that is supposed to ensure accessibility is not itself accessible?” The National Assembly is a mirror of society and is the most public institution in the country. Parliament must be accessible to all citizens, because it is not an ordinary workplace for MPs, but much more than that,” stated the executive director of the Institute for Modern Politics Petar Kicashki, who uses a wheelchair, emphatically.
The IMP emphasizes that the organization has raised this issue more than once under different administrations of the parliament over the past 5 years, but accessibility has never been established.
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