Legal Frameworks to Protect the Rights of Visually Impaired Individuals: Iraq as a Model

Abstract

Individuals with visual impairments are among the vulnerable groups in society, and for this, they must have the right to a remedy and have the necessary legal protection for their basic rights in various areas of their lives in view of their special needs, which contributes to increasing their interaction with their communities. International human rights law has provided this group with a package of international legal mechanisms and rules to protect their rights, foremost of which is the 2006 Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, to oblige countries, including Iraq, which became a party to it in 2010, to enact national legislation that allows this group to enjoy their rights. Law No. (83) of 2013, which provided the legal basis for protecting the rights of this segment at the national level.

Keywords

• visual impairment
• international agency for the prevention of blindness
• iraqi law of 2013
• marrakesh agreement