The rights of children with Down Syndrome

The UN approved the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in 2006. It makes it clear that all people have the same rights and not because we are different. that suffer any kind of discrimination. Down Syndrome is not a disease, but a genetic alteration that can lead to some degree of

The UN approved the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in 2006. It makes it clear that all people have the same rights and not because we are different. that suffer any kind of discrimination.

Down Syndrome is not a disease, but a genetic alteration that can lead to some degree of intellectual disability. It is important to know the rights of children with Down syndrome to participate in society as well as others and on equal terms.

8 fundamental rights of children with Down syndrome

1. All persons are equal before the law se and discrimination based on disability is prohibited. 2. All children with disabilities must fully enjoy all human rights

and fundamental freedoms on an equal basis with other children and for this the States will have to take the necessary measures to ensure that this is the case. Los 3. Children with disabilities have the right to express their opinion freely

about all the issues that affect them, as well as to receive the appropriate assistance according to their disability and age in order to exercise that right. Las 4. People with disabilities have the right to live independently para and for this they agree to adopt effective measures so that they can freely choose their place of residence, and where and with whom to live on equal terms with others. 5. All persons with disabilities have

the right to education, with equal opportunities than others in order to learn the skills that allow them to develop socially, learn and live in community. 6. People with disabilities have

the right to work and earn a living with the work they choose . Therefore, discrimination based on disability is prohibited. 7. Right to respect

the evolution of the faculties of children with disabilities.8.

Right to preserve your identity. What the UN collects about the Rights of Persons with Disabilities In 2006, the United Nations Organization approved the

International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities , and it was ratified by Spain in 2008.