Paraguay

Population Statistics

6,783,272

Total Population

1,017,491

Population with a disability

according to World Health Organization’s 15% estimate

Election Dates

03 September 2008

Ratified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities


Electoral Code (1994, last amended 2012)

Updated: June 2015

Article 210 states:

Electors shall vote in order of arrival, but the returning officer shall give priority to…persons suffering from illness…and disabled persons.

 

Article 220 states:

Persons who are unable, due to physical defect, to mark their ballots and insert them in the ballot box, may avail themselves, for these operations, of a person in whom they trust.

 

Excerpts from the Electoral Code (1994, last amended 2012)

National Constitution of the Republic of Paraguay (1992, last amended 2011)

Updated: June 2015

Article 6 states:

The quality of life will be promoted by the state through plans and policies that recognize conditional factors, such as extreme poverty and the impediments of disability or age.

 

Article 58 states:

It will be guaranteed to exceptional persons, the attention of their health, of their education, of their recreation, and of their professional formation for a social integration plan. The State will organize a prevention policy, treatment rehabilitation and nitration of the physically, mentally and sensory disabled, to whom the specialized care will be given that they require. They know that to enjoy the rights of the Constitution that are granted to all citizens of the Republic, with equal opportunities in order to offset their disadvantages.

 

Article 130 states:

The veterans of the Chaco war, and those of other armed international conflicts that found in defense of the homeland, will enjoy honors and privileges; of pensions that will permit them to live well; preferential assistance, free and comprehensive health care, as well as other benefits as determined by the law.  The economic benefits will be inherited by the widows or children who are minors of disabled, including veterans fallen prior to the adoption of this constitution.

 

Excerpts from the National Constitution of the Republic of Paraguay (1992, last amended 2011)