[ De l’accès des enfants handicapés à l’éducation dans la ville de Kolwezi en RD Congo ]
Volume 27, Issue 1, August 2019, Pages 337–350
MAVUNGU MAVUNGU Roger1
1 Chef de Travaux, Département de droit privé et judiciaire, Faculté de Droit, Université de Likasi, BP 1825, Likasi, RD Congo
Original language: French
Copyright © 2019 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The Universal Human Rights Declaration, the Convention on the Children Rights and the Convention on the disabled persons Rights recognize an equal right to the enjoyment of the right to education for all valid and handicapped children. This research aims at find out if the handicapped child of Kolwezi in the D.R. Congo actually enjoys this right to education. That is to say the handicapped with access to school. Accessibility to this right has three overlapping dimensions: no discrimination, physical accessibility and affordability. The analysis of the situation showed that handicapped children have little schooling. Only those with less severe disabilities are given the chance to study in regular schools with valid children; those affected severely don’t attend school. Their schooling faces specific difficulties, in this case the absence of specialized schools and the high cost of health care or disability. The effective enjoyment of this right to education by the handicapped child of Kolwezi necessitates a synergy of actions of everyone consisting in particular for the parents to accept the handicap of their children and to educate them without discrimination, for the public authorities to organize measures (numbering of all handicapped children with or without schooling, the establishment of specialized schools, and the effectiveness of free education and health care), and for non-governmental organizations to raise awareness among the population the need for the education right of handicapped children.
Author Keywords: DR Congo, Kolwezi, education right, disabled person, accessibility, specialized school, no discrimination, effectiveness.
Volume 27, Issue 1, August 2019, Pages 337–350
MAVUNGU MAVUNGU Roger1
1 Chef de Travaux, Département de droit privé et judiciaire, Faculté de Droit, Université de Likasi, BP 1825, Likasi, RD Congo
Original language: French
Copyright © 2019 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
The Universal Human Rights Declaration, the Convention on the Children Rights and the Convention on the disabled persons Rights recognize an equal right to the enjoyment of the right to education for all valid and handicapped children. This research aims at find out if the handicapped child of Kolwezi in the D.R. Congo actually enjoys this right to education. That is to say the handicapped with access to school. Accessibility to this right has three overlapping dimensions: no discrimination, physical accessibility and affordability. The analysis of the situation showed that handicapped children have little schooling. Only those with less severe disabilities are given the chance to study in regular schools with valid children; those affected severely don’t attend school. Their schooling faces specific difficulties, in this case the absence of specialized schools and the high cost of health care or disability. The effective enjoyment of this right to education by the handicapped child of Kolwezi necessitates a synergy of actions of everyone consisting in particular for the parents to accept the handicap of their children and to educate them without discrimination, for the public authorities to organize measures (numbering of all handicapped children with or without schooling, the establishment of specialized schools, and the effectiveness of free education and health care), and for non-governmental organizations to raise awareness among the population the need for the education right of handicapped children.
Author Keywords: DR Congo, Kolwezi, education right, disabled person, accessibility, specialized school, no discrimination, effectiveness.
Abstract: (french)
La déclaration universelle des droits de l’homme, la convention relative aux droits de l’enfant et la convention relative aux droits des personnes handicapées reconnaissent un droit égal de jouissance du droit à l’éducation à tout enfant valide ou handicapé. Cette recherche vise à savoir si l’enfant handicapé de Kolwezi en RDC, jouit effectivement de ce droit à l’éducation, c’est-à-dire l’accès à l’école. L’accessibilité à ce droit a 3 dimensions qui se chevauchent : la non-discrimination, accessibilité physique et l’accessibilité économique. L’analyse de la situation a démontré que les enfants handicapés sont peu scolarisés. Seuls les handicapés affectés moins sévèrement ont la chance d’étudier dans des écoles ordinaires avec des enfants valides ; ceux affectés sévèrement ne fréquentent pas l’école. Leur scolarisation est confrontée à des difficultés spécifiques, en l’occurrence l’absence des écoles spécialisées et le coût élevé de la prise en charge sanitaire ou handicap. La jouissance effective de ce droit à l’éducation par l’enfant handicapé de Kolwezi nécessite une synergie d’actions de tout le monde consistant notamment pour les parents à accepter le handicap de leurs enfants et à les scolariser sans discrimination, pour les pouvoirs publics à mettre en place un train de mesures ( recensement de tous les enfants handicapés scolarisé ou non, implantation des écoles spécialisées, et effectivité de la gratuité de l’éducation et des soins de santé) et pour les organismes non gouvernementaux à sensibiliser la population sur la nécessité du droit à l’éducation de ses enfants handicapés.
Author Keywords: RD Congo, Kolwezi, droit à l’éducation, personnes handicapée, accessibilité, école spécialisée, non-discrimination, effectivité.
How to Cite this Article
MAVUNGU MAVUNGU Roger, “Access of children with disabilities to education in the city of Kolwezi in DR Congo,” International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 337–350, August 2019.
