New Peru Legislation Threatens Disability Rights

New Peru Legislation Threatens Disability Rights

Click to expand Image A view of the Congress building in Lima, Peru, September 17, 2018. © REUTERS/Guadalupe Pardo Having a disability should never result in a person being denied freedom. Yet across Latin America, thousands of people with disabilities are still forcibly institutionalized, often from a young age, with little control over their lives. A new amendment to Peru’s General Law on Persons with Disabilities unfortunately exemplifies thi…

Serious threat to civic space in Peru: organizations condemn law that restricts the work of civil society and violates victims' rights

Joint statement April 24, 2025. The undersigned organizations express our strongest condemnation of the enactment last April 14, 2025, without observation by the Executive Branch of Peru, of the law approved in Congress on March 12, which represents a serious threat to the defense of human rights. Likewise, the approval of this law does not comply with Peru's obligation to guarantee the rights of assembly, association, expression, defense of hum…

The last my rcoles is enacted the law amending Legislative Decree 1428 to include persons with disabilities in the Amber Alert. The president signs its publication in the Official Journal El Peruano.

Collectives of persons with disabilities marched in front of Congress to demand the urgent treatment of the project that seeks to guarantee resources until 2027. The post Social organizations for disability asked to declare the emergency and Congress suspended the debate appeared first on El Intransigente.