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(d) Promoting awareness-training programmes regarding persons
with disabilities and the rights of persons with disabilities.

Article 9
Accessibility

1. To enable persons with disabilities to live independently and participate
fully in all aspects of life, States Parties shall take appropriate measures to
ensure to persons with disabilities access, on an equal basis with others, to the
physical environment, to transportation, to information and communications,
including information and communications technologies and systems, and to
other facilities and services open or provided to the public, both in urban and
in rural areas. These measures, which shall include the identification and
elimination of obstacles and barriers to accessibility, shall apply to, inter alia:

(a) Buildings, roads, transportation and other indoor and outdoor
facilities, including schools, housing, medical facilities and workplaces;

(b) Information, communications and other services, including
electronic services and emergency services.

2. States Parties shall also take appropriate measures:

(a) To develop, promulgate and monitor the implementation of
minimum standards and guidelines for the accessibility of facilities and
services open or provided to the public;

(b) To ensure that private entities that offer facilities and services
which are open or provided to the public take into account all aspects of
accessibility for persons with disabilities;

(c) To provide training for stakeholders on accessibility issues facing
persons with disabilities;

(d) To provide in buildings and other facilities open to the public
signage in Braille and in easy to read and understand forms;

(e) To provide forms of live assistance and intermediaries, including
guides, readers and professional sign language interpreters, to facilitate
accessibility to buildings and other facilities open to the public;

(f) To promote other appropriate forms of assistance and support to
persons with disabilities to ensure their access to information;

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