Ammon News -

Under the patronage of HH Prince Mired, president of the Higher Council for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (HCD), an online conference was convened on Monday via Zoom on the Right to Family and Home for People with Disabilities.

The event is organised by the Ecumenical Disability Advocates Network (EDAN) Middle East, in partnership with the HCD, the Hashemite University and I Am a Human Society for Persons with Disabilities, according to a HCD statement.

The three-day virtual event will be attended by 600 participants, including people with disabilities and their representative organisations, experts and members of the academia and the media as well as specialists in the field.

The conference aims to shed light on the right to marriage and family life for people with disabilities, while opening perspectives for a better future within a welcoming community, irrespective of the socially constructed stereotypes, norms and customs related to marriage, family, parenthood, and the relationships preventing them from being part of such a community, such as the stigma and prevalent misconceptions preventing people with disabilities from exercising their full potential. This is especially the case as the right to form a family differs between males and females, with women with disabilities facing a triple discrimination — on the grounds of disability, gender and poverty, read the statement.