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Wednesday January 28, 2009Falling short ONE VOICE By PANG HIN YUE
The Persons With Disabilities Act 2008 has been reduced to a mere administrative document. Who then can the disabled turn to for help?
UNLIKE previous seminars held at the Bar Council headquarters, there was a conspicuous absence of Special Branch officers at the recent talk on “Persons with Disabilities Act 2008: What Next?”
The Bar Council’s Human Rights Committee chairman, Edmund Bon, reckoned it was because the disabled community was perceived as “non-threatening”.
It may not have had the tension and drama that come with some of the more explosive issues that the Bar Council had attempted to address, but it was no less emotionally-charged. No less gut-wrenching, when...
