Parliamentary Secretary Justyne Caruana said that the disability hub will not be a ‘gilded cage’, and gave assurances that it will not result in any segregation of the people with disability who will be living there. She was speaking with The Malta Independent on Sunday following a conference on certain Articles within the United Nations Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities (UNCRPD). The phrase ‘a gilded cage’ was used by Vice-President of the European Disability Forum Gunta Anca, who was at the event. She used it as a general term to describe certain homes, in which large groups of disabled people live together within a community, during comments to...
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