Baku. 25 January. REPORT.AZ/ "Azerbaijan will eliminate a ban on child adoption by people with disabilities," Sabir Gojayev, head of the Department for Social Security of Disabled Policy at the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of Population said.
Report informs that he spoke at a press conference on "Improvement of governance in the field of child adoption".
According to him, the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities asked the Government of Azerbaijan for the implementation of the Convention in this area: "One of those questions is the demand of the people, who want to adopt child, regarding their disease, contained in Resolution 172 of the Cabinet of Ministers. That demand restricts child adoption for the people with second and third group disabilities, which is, of course, the discrimination against those people."
"There is such an approach that if one of the child's parents dies, and the other parent is a person with the first or second class disability, the child is considered to be deprived of parental care. We consider that this article is discriminatory against those persons and will be removed from the system. Such an approach arises from the cases taken from international experience. The decision will be based on the extent the disease affects the person's life."