Executive Summary
Below is report on human rights of persons with disabilities, based on holistic approach which implies monitoring of respect, respectively violation of human rights of persons with disabilities in three areas: individual experience of persons with disabilities based on field interviews, monitoring of the laws, legislation and policies which treats human rights of persons with disabilities, and social attitudes toward persons with disabilities reflected through media coverage of issues related to persons with disabilities. For all three areas was made a separate report which was later incorporated into a holistic report.
In introduction, methodology which were used has been explained in details, as well as statistical and demographic data which characterized included areas where individual experiences took place. All key activities such as: coordination of the project, coordination of conducting interviews as well as conducting interviews on the field, data processing and analysis, monitoring of the Laws and policies as well as monitoring of the media where implemented exclusively by persons with disabilities.
Concept of the report was determined in accordance with areas which were recognized as most critical during individual experiences, which means that structure of this report was determined by persons with disabilities. All other aspects in report arise in relation to that key areas of life, respectively objective status of persons with disabilities in Montenegro.
Based on the merged results and analysis we have quantitatively obtained the most human rights violations in the areas of: social participation, labor and employment, insurance income and support services, privacy and family life and health, therefore these areas are the subject of special attention in this report. However, there are areas where people with disabilities allocates believing that they perceive to be the major field, and that, therefore the situation in these areas should be significantly improved.
In this part we would to express our gratitude to partner organizations and local coordinators, to the team who worked on preparation of the report, as well to all other individuals who participated and gave their contribution to the quality of the results and the entire report.
Also, we would like to thank to the Regional Centre for Monitoring the rights of persons with disabilities in South East Europe for their support and cooperation, and especially to Disability Rights Promotion International and York University for providing financial support for implementation of this project and monitoring of human rights of persons with disabilities in Montenegro and in general for support in capacity building of Association of Youth with Disabilities for implementation of these and similar projects in aim of contributing to respect of human rights of persons with disabilities in Montenegro.