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    The right of access to information for visiually disabled and hearing impaired persons in South Africa
    (Univeristy of the Western Cape, 2011) Noucke, Alphonse Landry
    In the modern era, the predominant ideology of the notion of disability was considered in "a medical paradigm,'" in way that people with disabilities were considered as persons unable to perform any social expectation, in other words they were perceived as a problem for society. The policies and the rules of society were dominated by discrimination against people with disability on the ground that they cannot be assimilated or cope with standards of the mainstream society. The adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) is an important step towards effective protection and promotion of human rights of disabled persons throughout the world, and even more importantly in the case of Africa:' The promotion and protection of the rights of persons with disabilities reinforces the basic socioeconomic and civil rights guaranteed in the mainstream human rights documents. However, instruments such as the CRPD serve to emphasize and give special protection to the rights of persons with disabilities. The CRPD provides for rights such as the right to life, the right to education, the right to personal mobility, the right to work and the right to freedom of expression and opinion. and access to information and disabled persons shall not be discriminated on the ground of their disability.