Author: salvatore cimmino

A bill that aims to make the right to a dignified existence of people with disabilities and their families enforceable

A bill that aims to make the right to a dignified existence of people with disabilities and their families enforceable

The growing gap between citizens with disabilities (together with their families) and the policies that are registered in our country are not attributable only to indifference or protest, more or less conscious, against an inadequate and corrupt political class. It indicates something more serious: a radical loss of faith in democracy as a vehicle for…

By salvatore cimmino 26 January 2022 0

My life for freedom

My life for freedom

Do we live in a rule of law? But what does the rule of law mean? In the broadest sense, this expression indicates the type of state where the law over power prevails: it is the law that confers power and regulates its behavior. The fundamental principles of a rule of law are legality, the…

By salvatore cimmino 19 January 2022 0

Improving the world is possible, necessary and right

Improving the world is possible, necessary and right

Every day the Articles of the Convention on the rights of persons with disabilities are widely betrayed by a politically (and not only) class which is guilty distracted and quietly in default. Article 3 of the Convention is certainly the one most ignored: general principles: Respect for intrinsic dignity, individual autonomy, including the freedom to…

By salvatore cimmino 11 January 2022 0

Love for democracy

Love for democracy

The importance of having an International Convention – on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities – is given by the fact that it is equivalent to a law: it is a legal instrument which, once ratified, as has happened in at least 1/3 of the member countries of the United Nations, it becomes binding for…

By salvatore cimmino 6 January 2022 0