Professional paper
MODALITIES FOR THE PROTECTION OF DISABLED PERSONS IN REPUBLIC OF CROATIA
Alan Vajda
; Hrvatska obrtnička komora, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Abstract
The paper addresses issues relating to the protection of disabled persons, a particularly vulnerable social category, with accent on the implementation of the National Disabled Persons Strategy in the Republic of Croatia in the period from 2007 to 2015.
The author provides an abbreviated overview of different modalities for the protection of disabled persons by listing the guaranteed constitutional and legal rights of disabled persons exercised individually or through membership in the Croatian Union of Associations of Disabled Persons or in the Croatian Union of Associations of Labour Invalids through their various local associations on the territory of Croatia.
Keywords
physical impairment; disability; handicap; disabled persons; disabled persons with reduced work ability; persons with general work disability; persons with professional disability; physically and mentally impaired persons; children and youth with developmental difficulties; special needs persons
Hrčak ID:
112840
URI
Publication date:
23.12.2013.
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