The Minister of Social Development Honorable ‘Matebatso Doti has finally tabled the disability equity draft bill in Parliament.

Honorable Doti tabled the draft on the 31st August 2018, the same day when Parliament resumed sitting.

The document was drafted in 2015 in line with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities which the country ratified on 2nd December 2008.

She said she was confident that if passed into law, the bill would answer several challenges faced by people living with disability.

The draft bill comprises of an array of legal rights of persons living with disabilities including rights of access to services including health, the provision of education and the creation of the Disability Advisory Council.

The Lesotho National Federation of Organisations of the Disabled (LNFOD) last week hailed Honorable Doti’s efforts in tabling the draft bill before the Parliament.

LNFOD executive director Advocate Nkhasi Sefuthi, said the tabling of the bill marks a paradigm shift in Lesotho from where people living with disabilities will become rights holders capable of exercising their human rights on an equal basis with others.