Disabled Persons and Human Rights Violation

Abstract

From the available statistics, over 600 million people or approximately 10 percent of the word's total population have a disability of one form or another. Interestingly, over two thirds of them live in developing countries, which include Nigeria. Generally, these disable persons wherever they are found are exposed to various forms of discrimination and social exclusion. In other words, they are denied the full range of civil, cultural, economic, political and social rights which other citizens enjoyed...