The first guide in Braille in the languages of all the national minorities and the easy-to-read version of the law on the ensuring of equality were launched by the Equality Council in a conference on equality in everyone’s understanding on October 10. The aids will help the representatives of the national minorities and persons with visual impairments and cognitive and learning disabilities to protect their right to equality, IPN reports.
In a press release, the Equality Council said the law on the ensuring of equality was transposed to an easy-to-read version and the information was thus adjusted for a wider group of people.
The most often questions and answers in the activity of the Equality Council and real examples of discrimination were included in the petitioner’s guide that was printed in six languages, offering the ethnic and linguistic minorities the possibility of informing themselves in their mother tongue (Russian, Ukrainian, Gagauz, Bulgarian, Romani). For persons with sensorial disabilities, sound effects were added to the guide and this was printed in Braille.
According to the president of the Equality Council Ian Feldman, all the national institutions that provide services for the people should take into account the standards on the accessibility of information and put them into practice. This would reduce the inequalities existing in society, generated by the barriers faced by particular groups in realizing the right of unhampered access to information.
For the purpose, the Council thought up a guide intended for the authorities that contains practical information how to provide specific information in a format that meets the needs of people.
The aids are available in electronic form on www.egalitate.md in the publications section.
