Total Population
Population with a disability
according to World Health Organization’s 15% estimate2024
Ratified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Article 72, section 3 states:
The Chairmen of the Polling Station will prioritize the following voters...
(d) Disabled people...
Article 75 states:
(1) The blind and the disabled confirmed by the polling officers as incapable to vote, as described in the previous article, shall practice their voting right if accompanied by another voter freely chosen by himself, who can insure the voting secrecy.
(2) If the polling officers do not confirm an individual as disabled, he will request with the act of voting a document issued by the competent entity confirming the incapacity of this individual in practicing the acts referred to in the previous article.
Article 76 states:
Those who cannot read or write, incapable to make a cross in the blank square will vote by placing a fingers in the blank square or rectangular corresponding the candidate they chose, after pressing the fingers in the appropriated ink placed in the voting booth.
Article 16, paragraph 1 states:
The State shall ensure special protection to those who were disabled during the armed conflict that ended with the signing of the General Peace Agreement in 1992, as well as the orphans and other direct dependents.
Article 16, paragraph 2 states:
The State shall likewise protect those who have been disabled in the performance of public service or a humanitarian act.
Article 37 states:
Disabled citizens shall enjoy fully the rights enshrined in the Constitution and shall be subject to the same duties, except those which their disability prevents them from exercising or fulfilling.
Article 39 states:
All acts intended to undermine national unity, to disturb social harmony or to create divisions or situations of privilege or discrimination based on…physical or mental ability…shall be punished in terms of the law.
Article 95, paragraph 1 states:
All citizens shall have the right to assistance in the case of disability or old age.
Article 121, paragraph 2 states:
Children, in particular orphans and disabled and abandoned children, shall be protected by the family, by society and by the State against all forms of discrimination, ill treatment and the abusive use of authority within the family and in other institutions.
Article 125 states:
(1) The disabled shall have a right to special protection by the family, the society and the State.
(2) The State shall promote the creation of conditions for learning and developing sign language.
(3) The State shall promote the creation of conditions necessary for the economic and social integration of the disabled.
(4) The State shall promote, in cooperation with associations of the disabled and with private entities, a policy that will guarantee:
(5) The State shall encourage the establishment of associations of the disabled.
Article 23, section 2 states:
In case of voter incapability to sign or press his finger due to a notable disability the fact must be registered by the census officials in the subscription form.