This report looks at some of the ways that access to information can help persons with disabilities achieve their rights – and ways in which barriers to information can totally undermine their rights. It uses Lebanon as a case study. Lebanon has signed the CRPD but not yet ratified it – although its existing international commitments require it to make information accessible to persons with disabilities.
Without access to information, persons with disabilities have to work harder to address their exclusion from education, employment, transport systems and healthcare. A disproportionately large number of adults and children with disabilities live in residential institutions which isolate them from daily life. Lack of access to information perpetuates a system that works against the principles of inclusion and participation that lie at the heart of international law on disability.