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Reported by Fahad Bilal (Program Manager) Society for Special Persons, Multan.
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Activity Title Date Venue Facilitated by Representatives from Political Parties & Election Commission o f Pakistan.
Dialogue on Election 2013 Political Rights of Persons with Disabilities 10th April, 2013 Time: 12:00 PM- 03:00pm PST Taj Continental, Multan Organized by Society for Special Persons, supported by Strengthening Participatory Organization (SPO). Ishfaq sarver (Regional officer Election Commission Pakistan, Zahid Iqbal(District officer Election Commission Pakistan), Ali Qasim, son of Ex. Prime Minister Syed Youaf Raza Gillani (Pakistan Peoples Party-PPP), Nafees Ahmad Ansari (Pakistan People Party), Mohsin Shaheen (Jamat e Islami), Shahid Mehmood Khan (Pakistan Tahreek Insaf), Saleem Ansari (Mustakbil Pakistan), Muhammad Saleem Raja (PPP), Ameer Ali Qureshi (Pakistan Muslim League-N), Muhammad Hussain Babar (Nizame Mustafa Party). Shahnawaz Khan (Program Specialist SPO), Mrs Sadiqa Karamat Ali (Board member Society for Special Persons ), Zahida Hameed (SPO), Lion Muhhammad Afzl Sipra (SOCIETY FOR SPECIAL PERSONS BODs Member), Syed Ajaz Ahmad Shah (Chairman BODs),South Asia Pakistan (SAP-PK), MOJAZ Foundation, Bedari, Women Rights Association, Paidar Development organization, Multan Civil Society Network, Khalid Qureshi (President Traders Multan, Aghe Pakistan,, Peace &Development Foundation, Imran Komal(Daily Express), Sadia Tabasum (Ravi News), Mehwish (APP News), Rokia Neem (Daily Khabrain), Sabir (Pakistan Television), Multan Deaf Association,, Nadir Khan (VicePresident-Society for Special Persons), Asif Iqbal(GS-Society for Special Persons), Rana Arif, Fahad Bilal, Yasir Hameed, people with Disabilities member of Society for Special Persons.
Representatives from NGOs, INGOs, Stakeholders, Media, Disabled People organization (DPOs), and Persons with Disabilities.
Background:
ACCESS TO POLITICAL RIGHTS is one of the basic human rights and every state is bound to
provide execution of political rights to her citizens. SOCIETY FOR SPECIAL PERSONS is working with all political parties at District, Provincial & National level for the improvement of political conditions exclusively for Persons with Disabilities. As discrimination level is much high & unfortunately ignored by concern authorities, like no participation of PWDs in our parliament, low turnout of (PWD) voters in election process and so on. To improve current situation
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Proceedings of Conference
Ceremony was started with the recitation of Holy Quran by Hafiz Naveed Iqbal and after recitation Aysha Iqbal said Naat. Nadir Khan (vice president society for special persons) welcomed all the participants.
Then Mr. Nadir Khan (vice president society for special persons) requested Mr. Fahad Bilal to present his presentation on Political Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Election 2013. Fahad Bilal (Programme Manager- Society for Special Persons) delivered a multimedia
presentation to the audience in which he described the objective of the Dialogue. A research study and its findings were included in that presentation.
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First part of his presentation was on introduction of the organization Society for Special Persons than he highlighted the core objective of the dialogue and in last part he presented a research work study and its finding related to Political Rights of Persons with Disabilities. It was an online research conducted by Special Talent Exchange Programme (STEP) Islamabad a Disabled People organization and key partner of Society for special persons. All other DPOs were the stakeholder in this research work. Facts and feature were displayed on graphs and on charts in very interesting way and were clear to understand. The main focus the research was how to ensure the voting rights of Persons with Disabilities voters. The research was conducted with one thousand sample size with gender balance (500 Male and 500 Female). It was conducted in all over Pakistan. He concludes his presentation. All the participants of the dialogue really appreciated the research work and agreed that the suggestions should be followed in Electoral Process.
Zahida Hameed (SPO) shared the problem of the disabled persons, being a person with disability She provoked the political leaders to formulate the policy to facilitate persons with disabilities and political parties must ensure the UNCRPD Convention on the rights of persons with disabilities as it is signed by
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in collaboration with Society for Special Persons Multan, He said that They have included persons with disabilities in Benazeer income support program and Persons with Disabilities are getting monthly stipend through this program during his party tenor a major achievement was the ratification of
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Mr Syed Ajaz Ahmad Shah (Chairmen board of Director) Society for Special Persons thanked all the guest politicians, media, NGOs, government officials, he specially appreciated the participants of the dialogue for maintain the decorum of the dialogue as it is quite difficult that to opponents sitting in front of each others and tolerating so it was a very good sign of healthy competition further he said I am extremely happy to announced that the all political partied and election commission of Pakistan are united on a signal agenda that People with Disabilities should be given their political rights by facilitating them and by reserving their seats in parliament.
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Outcome
1. Regional and District officers (Election Commission of Pakistan) Multan strongly agree with the recommendation of this dialogue, appreciated Society for Special Persons work, and committed to forward recommendation to chief Election commissioner Pakistan to facilitate persons with disabilities Voters in electoral process. 2. Representatives of Political Parties also committed the same thing for the political rights of Persons with Disabilities. They Promised that They shell raise their voice of Persons with Disabilities for their representation in Parliament house and make every possible effort for inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in assembly 3. Representatives of Civil Society assured their support for the political rights of Persons with Disabilities to execute and protected these rights. They also committed with Society for Special Persons on polling day they shall arrange wheelchair for disabled voters to facilitate them 4. More than 100 people (Male/Female) were sensitized and award about the Political rights of Persons with Disabilities as the result of this dialogue organized by Society for Special Persons with the support of SPO.
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