Tag: Accessibility
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Tbilisi Court of Appeal Grants Beka Shonia Home Ventilator and Medical Services in Disability Rights Ruling
The Tbilisi Court of Appeal has overturned a lower court’s ruling and fully granted an interim measure request from Beka Shonia, a 21-year-old with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), ordering the extension of home medical services and provision of a new ventilator. Advocates say it is the first ruling of its kind in Georgia to secure home-delivered medical…
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Kenya: High Court’s affirmation of persons with disabilities’ legal capacity a welcome step forward
The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), the Validity Foundation, and the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights welcome the judgment of the High Court of Kenya at Nairobi (the Court) in the recent case of Wilson Nderitu Macharia v I&M Bank Limited in which the High Court affirmed that persons with disabilities have the right to obtain the services of private banks on an equal basis with all others, without being…