PHNOM PENH: The Prime Minister of Cambodia has requested all relevant local authorities to strengthen coordination mechanisms to prevent discrimination and stigma against person with disabilities. He has proposed to think about the type of business and occupation that is suitable for people with disabilities so that they can start their own business. He has delivered the message during the 23rd Cambodian Day of Persons with Disabilities and the 39th International Day of Persons with Disabilities Friday.
Prime Minister Hun Sen has highlighted the Royal Government's efforts to promote knowledge and labor rights and the protection of persons with disabilities by the Royal Government of Cambodia in the past. He stated that the work of protecting and promoting people with disabilities, the Royal Government needs the participation of development partners, private sector, civil society organizations, organizations with disabilities, non-governmental organizations, including person with disabilities to implement the disability environment into the implementation of action plans. He says it is a way to aim achieving a sustainable quality of life for people with disabilities.
The Prime Minister says, "The Royal Government of Cambodia has a clear vision to ensure that people with disabilities and their families have a good quality of life and participate fully and equally in a society with respect for rights and dignity, as well as a room for disability in all areas and development."
Furthermore, Prime Minister Hun Sen has urged the ministries, public and private institutions to encourage people with disabilities who have the qualifications and ability to fulfill their roles in their institutions without discrimination in line with the accessibility to public places for people with disabilities, such as special parking spaces for people with disabilities, ramps, equipment, handrails, doors, bathrooms for people with disabilities, signs in all public and private places.
As of 2020, there are 8,768 people with disabilities working in public and private institutions nationwide, of which 4,204 are women with disabilities. Separately, as of 8 November 2021, the Ministry of Social Affairs, Veterans and Youth Rehabilitation has cooperated with relevant ministries and institutions, the Capital and Provincial Disability Action Council, the Capital and Provincial Disability Action Council to process disability identification cards throughout the country to produce 215,358 disability cards of these, 26,949 people with disabilities are self-employed entrepreneurs.
