German Parliament Passes Equal Rights Law for Disabled People
By Ottmar Miles-Paul, German Network for Equal Rights for Disabled People (OMilesPaul@aol.com)
February 28 was a historic day for the civil rights movement of disabled people in Germany. Our Federal Parliament passed our first equal rights law for disabled people witha huge majority. Even though the Parliament of the States still has to agree to the law, we feel quite sure that they will.
Two of our great disability rights lawyers, Horst Frehe and Andreas Juergens, were even sitting on the government bench during the debate and the passage of the law, so the disability movement was right in the middle of this historic day.
We will provide more details later on but I wanted to share this breaking news with the international disability community immediately.
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