A Critical Perspective on the Human Rights of Individuals with Disabilities: The Indian Context

People with impairments have been a part of human culture since the dawn of time. Although feeling and lack of concern for them were frighteningly lacking. They were completely helpless, ignored, scorned, and the target of generalized social apathy. Even the issue of providing them with the bare minimum human rights has only recently begun to be addressed, despite the concept and the history of the founding of human rights is a colorful one. It is particularly regrettable that until the end of World War II, the concerns pertaining to people with disabilities, either within the framework of human rights or in general, were neither clarified nor addressed. The resources needed to actually carry out the constitutional guarantees have been noticeably absent until recently, despite the fact that the Indian Constitution guarantees people with disabilities all civil, political, economic, cultural, and social rights as well as the arrangements for them. They are often stigmatized by society and do not have access to basic human rights. It is especially true if the impairment is mental or psychological. Disability awareness has increased in the past century on both a national and on a global scale. The period from 1983 to 1992 is declared to be a decade for Disabled Persons movement, which has emerged in support of Disabled Persons. In this work, the author has attempted to examine the state of human rights for those with disabilities from the standpoint of the Indian context.