Book chapter
"I Want to Be a Citizen Just like Any Other": Barriers to Political Participation for People with Disabilities in Peru
Human Rights Watch
01 May 2012
Abstract
This report documents the legacy of a policy in Peru, changed only in October 2011, that arbitrarily denied people with sensory, intellectual, and psychosocial disabilities their right to vote, considering them legally incompetent to exercise such a decision. Human Rights Watch also examined the barriers that people with these and other disabilities face when exercising their political rights, including the difficulty of getting identity documents essential for voting, and the absence of support mechanisms to help people with disabilities make voting decisions. Tables.
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- Title
- "I Want to Be a Citizen Just like Any Other": Barriers to Political Participation for People with Disabilities in Peru
- Creators
- Shantha BarrigaRebecca SchleiferJoseph AmonDaniel WilkinsonAisling ReidyBabatunde Olugboji
- Publication Details
- Human Rights Watch
- Number of pages
- 89
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Community Health and Prevention
- Identifiers
- 991021895682604721