Reasonable accommodation means necessary and appropriate modification and adjustments not imposing a disproportionate or undue burden, where needed in a particular case, to ensure to persons with disabilities the enjoyment or exercise on an equal basis with others of all human rights and fundamental freedoms
Human Rights Standards:
Articles 24 (2) (c) & (5), Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; Article 23 (a), Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa; Article 3 (1), Inter-American Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Persons with Disabilities; Article 40, Arab Charter
Areas of Focus:
Marginalised Groups:
Types of Indicator:
Lack of reasonable accommodation measures may impair the access of children with disabilities to mainstream schools