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Desist from making jokes out of disabilities through movies and entertainment, says Gender Minister.

Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection, Mrs Cynthia Morrison, has advised the public to desist from making fun of persons with disability through jokes, movies and other forms of entertainment.

She said the self-esteem of persons with disability were affected indirectly when abled persons made fun of them, adding that the practice did not help the general wellbeing of the disabled.

She was addressing the joint launch of the Equal World Campaign in Ghana by the Ghana Federation of Disability Organisations (GFD) and Sightsavers.

The campaign is to urge government to ratify the African Disability Protocol and adopt an employment equity policy to promote equal and accessible employment for persons with disabilities.

Mrs Morrison said parents or persons with disability did not have the right to determine how they wanted to be born and that any person in one way or the other could become a victim of disability through accidents and other unforeseen circumstances.

She said that her Ministry was working on an arrangement to engage persons with disability to work as toll collectors, adding that they would also engage such persons in offices where they could be productive.

Mrs Morrison assured the Federation of her Ministry’s support in their fight to get the African Disability Protocol ratified and adaptation of an employment equity policy to promote equal and accessible employment for persons with disabilities.

Global Advocacy Advisor at Sightsavers, Ms Gertrude Oforiwaa Fefoame, said it was important for participants and volunteers to mobilise support from around the world to join their world in their fight for disability rights.

She said change of attitude towards disability advocacy was rife for the attainment of an equal world where all were treated equally without prejudice.

Ms Rita Kusi Kyeremaa, Executive Director of GFD, asked the public to sign in support of the fight for an equal world where persons with disability were not discriminated against.

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