2.
States Parties recognize the right of persons with disabilities to social
protection and to the enjoyment of that right without discrimination on the
basis of disability, and shall take appropriate steps to safeguard and promote
the realization of this right, including measures:
(a)
To ensure equal access by persons with disabilities to clean water
services, and to ensure access to appropriate and affordable services, devices
and other assistance for disability-related needs;
(b)
To ensure access by persons with disabilities, in particular women
and girls with disabilities and older persons with disabilities, to social
protection programmes and poverty reduction programmes;
(c)
To ensure access by persons with disabilities and their families
living in situations of poverty to assistance from the State with disabilityrelated expenses, including adequate training, counselling, financial assistance
and respite care;
(d)
To ensure access by persons with disabilities to public housing
programmes;
(e)
To ensure equal access by persons with disabilities to retirement
benefits and programmes.
Article 29
Participation in political and public life
States Parties shall guarantee to persons with disabilities political rights
and the opportunity to enjoy them on an equal basis with others, and shall
undertake:
(a)
To ensure that persons with disabilities can effectively and fully
participate in political and public life on an equal basis with others, directly or
through freely chosen representatives, including the right and opportunity for
persons with disabilities to vote and be elected, inter alia, by:
(i)
Ensuring that voting procedures, facilities and materials are
appropriate, accessible and easy to understand and use;
(ii) Protecting the right of persons with disabilities to vote by secret
ballot in elections and public referendums without intimidation, and to
stand for elections, to effectively hold office and perform all public
functions at all levels of government, facilitating the use of assistive and
new technologies where appropriate;
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