Doha: Qatar Society for Rehabilitation of Special Needs (QSRSN) celebrates the Arab Deaf Week through organising a series of activities starting from today until Wednesday under the theme “Employing deaf and reducing unemployment”.
A number of institutions and entities working in the field of disability in the country, and a number of specialists, media professionals, lawyers, and doctors will participate in event.
The week-long programme will be held at Radisson Blu Hotel Doha, and will include a series of lectures and workshops conducted by experts to educate participants about sign language.
Among these lectures, one lecture is “The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Law and the Qatari Legislation”, while another is about the basics of dealing with people with special needs.
Sheikh Thani bin Abdullah Al Thani, Chairman of QSRSN said the Society is trying as much as possible to achieve the desired goals from this event specially that this year the theme is very important which is ‘employing deaf and reducing unemployment’.
He stressed that work and access to a job is a fundamental right for persons with disabilities, including deaf people like ordinary people without prejudice or discrimination, mentioning that that international conventions and covenants on human rights guaranteed them this right either in work, education or health care.
