The Right to Access and Participation in Transportation of People with Disabilities in Vietnam

Abstract

For people with disabilities (PWDs), the need to travel, access and participate in traffic, in addition to the universality of ensuring the right to personal mobility, is also extremely urgent because it is a means of transport for PWDs to have access to information, employment, entertainment, social integration and rehabilitation. Moreover, access to transportation is also one of the ways to present the equal rights of PWDs in society. By promulgating the Law on People with Disabilities in 2010 and ratifying the United Nations Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities (CRPD), Vietnam has really made strides in terms of ensuring the rights of people with disabilities. However, inadequacies in regulations and difficulties in exercising the right to access and participate in traffic are still relatively common. This article focuses on analyzing the legal regulations on the right to access and participate in traffic of people with disabilities and practical implementation in Vietnam, on that basis, proposes solutions to further ensure the right to access traffic for PWDs in the current period.