IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/src/sbseec/v4y2022i2p591-596.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Evaluating Persons with Disabilities about Awareness of their Rights as Citizens of Pakistan: A Survey with Reference to ICT Rights of PWD’s Act 2020

Author

Listed:
  • Ahmad, Muntaha
  • Raza, Ayesha
  • Fatima, Ghulam

Abstract

Purpose: Awareness of human rights are significant in the safety of the citizen of a country. While the government has set up detailed rights for people with disabilities, due to the lack of awareness many people with disabilities in Pakistan are not able to access educational, vocational or employment facilities. The purpose of this study was to evaluate people with disabilities’ awareness of their rights as citizens of Pakistan.Methodology: The study was quantitative in nature. To collect and evaluate data, the researcher designed a questionnaire of twenty-four statements. The variance was calculated to evaluate awareness based on the age, gender, employment status and disability of the participants.Findings: Major findings of the study revealed that participants of age twenty-seven and above and who were employed, were aware of most of the mentioned rights, while participants who were below age twenty-seven or students, were unaware or partially aware of most of the mentioned rights.Implications: Seminars and webinars should be conducted to the awareness of the rights of people with different abilities in educational institutions for people with disabilities, for parents of children with disabilities as well as for the common public so, that people with different abilities feel included and safe in society.

Suggested Citation

  • Ahmad, Muntaha & Raza, Ayesha & Fatima, Ghulam, 2022. "Evaluating Persons with Disabilities about Awareness of their Rights as Citizens of Pakistan: A Survey with Reference to ICT Rights of PWD’s Act 2020," Sustainable Business and Society in Emerging Economies, CSRC Publishing, Center for Sustainability Research and Consultancy Pakistan, vol. 4(2), pages 591-596, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:src:sbseec:v:4:y:2022:i:2:p:591-596
    DOI: http://doi.org/10.26710/sbsee.v4i2.2431
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://publishing.globalcsrc.org/ojs/index.php/sbsee/article/view/2431/1476
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/http://doi.org/10.26710/sbsee.v4i2.2431?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:src:sbseec:v:4:y:2022:i:2:p:591-596. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Dr Rana Muhammad Adeel Farooq (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/csrcmpk.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.