Občania so zdravotným postihnutím ako sociálna minorita – základ formulovania antidiskriminačnej legislatívy
Physically Disabled Citizens as Social Minority – A Basis for Preparing the Anti-discrimination Legislation

Summary/Abstract: Physically Disabled Citizens as Social Minority – A Basis for Preparing the Anti-discrimination Legislation. In the presented text, the author deals with the issue of physical disability and the impact of physical disability on the life of an individual, i.e. what practical disadvantages are imposed on the affected individual by having such disability when compared to people having no such disability. The author describes in more detail various models of physical disability that involve the history of how society has been approaching this phenomenon. According to the author, the presence of disadvantages arising from physical disability that affect the life of a human beings entitles the disabled to be considered as a minority. The author makes distinction between two types of approach to this minority: on one side, there is an approach that is currently becoming a basis for preparing anti-discrimination legislation and for launching a global campaign promoting human rights protection; this approach is put to contrast against a traditional collective approach that is based on general indemnification of the disabled by means of social welfare and labour policy measures. The author looks at some contradictory areas, which, in real-life practice, make it more difficult to think of the disabled as an internally as well as externally coherent minority. This fact, however, does not weaken the UN-level effort of professional experts and activists for human rights of the persons with physical disability who are currently working on preparation of General Declaration of Human Rights of Persons with Physical Disability. Sociológia 2003 Vol. 35 (No. 2: 141-162)

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