Total Population
Population with a disability
according to World Health Organization’s 15% estimateRatified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Article 29 states:
(1) All persons with disabilities shall be entitled at their request, to be assisted by persons of their choice in voting in presidential, parliamentary and civic elections.
(2) A person who undertakes to render assistance under subsection (1) shall do so strictly in accordance with the instructions of the voter.
(3) A person described in subsection (2) shall bind himself, in the prescribed form, to comply with that subsection.
(4) A person who contravenes subsection (2) is guilty of an offence.
Article 30 states:
Polling stations shall be made accessible to persons with disabilities during elections, and such persons shall in addition be provided with the necessary devices and assistive devices and services to facilitate the exercise of this right under this section.
Article 38 states:
(1) Every citizen is free to make political choices…
(2) Every citizen has the right to free, fair and regular elections based on universal suffrage and the free expression of the will of the electors…
(3) Every adult citizen has the right, without unreasonable restrictions: