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Egypt Today
4 days ago
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et guide: Law prohibits 8 situations that put people with disabilities at risk
Wheel chair - file CAIRO - 6 June 2025: Law No. 10 of 2018 on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities includes many acquired rights, primarily aimed at protecting people with disabilities, ensuring their access to their entitlements, and ensuring their full integration into society. The law warns against endangering a person or child with a disability or threatening their dignity. Therefore, it imposes a prison sentence of no less than six months and a fine of no less than EGP 5,000 and no more than EGP 50,000 for anyone who endangers people with special needs. A person or child with a disability is considered at risk, according to Article 46 of the law, "in any situation that threatens respect for their personal dignity and autonomy, or that discriminates against them on the basis of disability, in the following cases: 1. If their safety, morals, health, or life are threatened. 2. Imprisoning or isolating a person with a disability from society without legal basis, or refusing to provide them with medical, rehabilitative, community, or legal care. 3. Assaulting children with disabilities by physical or other means in residential and rehabilitation homes, nurseries, and educational institutions, or sexually assaulting, harming, threatening, or exploiting them. 4. Using therapeutic methods or medical experiments that harm a person or child with a disability without legal basis. 5. Placing children or persons with disabilities in upper-floor classrooms in public or private schools without providing accessibility and accommodations for their special circumstances. 6. Failure to provide necessary treatment for children with disabilities, or to provide necessary food for children with intellectual disabilities. Especially in cases of metabolic disorders (diet). 7. Failure to provide adequate spatial, security, and guidance facilities for persons with disabilities at their workplaces, exposing them to violence, contempt, insult, or hatred, and incitement to any of these. 8. Placing persons with disabilities in special institutions to dispose of them because they are persons with disabilities, except in cases that warrant such placement.
Egypt Today
15-05-2025
- Politics
- Egypt Today
50% discount for differently abled citizens on all means of transportation: Egyptian law
A man in a wheelchair takes part in a protest against cuts to state disability welfare payments in London, Britain, March 23, 2016. REUTERS/Dylan Martinez CAIRO - 15 May 2025: Egypt's Law No. 10 of 2018 on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities established clear guarantees for persons with disabilities to receive all their entitlements and be fairly integrated into society. The law includes numerous unprecedented acquired rights, all of which aim to empower persons with disabilities after appropriate rehabilitation. The state works to provide all aspects of empowerment for persons with disabilities, including rehabilitation, healthcare, integration, and equal educational opportunities. Article (30) of the same law stipulates that the state, ministries responsible for transportation, and other relevant authorities shall be committed to establishing the necessary systems to facilitate the movement of persons with disabilities, including allocating spaces for them on all means of transportation of all classes, categories, and types, reducing the fare by at least 50% of the paid value for the person with a disability and their assistant, and using technological accessibility tools in transportation and communication. The executive regulations of Law No. 10 of 2018 on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities include mechanisms to facilitate the integration of people with disabilities into society across various categories, sectors, and specialties nationwide, and across various ministries and agencies. The regulations also facilitate the integration and access to the acquired rights stipulated in the legislation. These regulations include allocating designated spaces for people with disabilities and granting them discounts on all public transportation. The regulations emphasize that the ministries responsible for transportation and relevant authorities are committed to taking the necessary measures to facilitate the use of roads, sidewalks, and crossing points by people with disabilities. They are also committed to providing the necessary technologies, information, electronic services, and emergency services to address the impacts of their disabilities. They also provide complementary means, equipment, and furniture at reception and information offices, as well as the necessary sanitary and electrical equipment and personnel to facilitate interaction with people with disabilities. In addition, places will be allocated for people with disabilities on all types, classes, and categories of transportation, and fares for all these means will be reduced by no less than 50% for people with disabilities and their assistants.
