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". I welcome this report, although it falls short in certain areas. It regrets the fact that, despite repeated calls by Parliament, the Action Plan does not contain legislative proposals, in particular a directive to combat discrimination based on disabilities, extending to all sectors of European Union competence and designed once and for all to remove all barriers to participation in community life by people with disabilities. It also criticises the fact that in the proposals for the Action Plan attention has not been given to the need to offer specific support to disabled persons’ organisations in the new accession countries. The report also states that the future Treaty must provide for stronger measures to combat discrimination and to promote respect for human rights, especially of those people with a high degree of dependency and/or unable to represent themselves unaided. It advocates a United Nations Convention on the human rights of people with disabilities and calls for the recommendations of the EU expert report on ‘Accessibility for All’ to be implemented, including the revision of Constructive Products Directive, thereby laying down mandatory accessibility standards. The report calls on the Commission to place special emphasis on combating violence against women with disabilities, under the Daphne Programme and to introduce measures to remedy …"@en1
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