Poland has maintained a high level of gender equality, an established disability rights movement and promotes peaceful equality.

1. States Parties shall ensure that persons with disabilities, on an equal basis with others

Article 12 Equal recognition before the law

Article 29 Participation in political and public life

(d) Enable persons with disabilities to have effective access to general technical and vocational guidance programmes, placement services and vocational and continuing training

2. States Parties shall ensure the rights and responsibilities of persons with disabilities, with regard to guardianship, wardship, trusteeship, adoption of children or similar institutions, where these concepts exist in national legislation in all cases the best interests of the child shall be paramount. States Parties shall render appropriate assistance to persons with disabilities in the performance of their child rearing responsibilities.

(a) Enjoy access to cultural materials in accessible formats

2. States Parties shall recognize that persons with disabilities enjoy legal capacity on an equal basis with others in all aspects of life.

(a) To ensure that persons with disabilities can effectively and fully participate in political and public life on an equal basis with others, directly or through freely chosen representatives, including the right and opportunity for persons with disabilities to vote and be elected, inter alia, by

(a) Have the right to acquire and change a nationality and are not deprived of their nationality arbitrarily or on the basis of disability

3. In order to promote equality and eliminate discrimination, States Parties shall take all appropriate steps to ensure that reasonable accommodation is provided.

Article 23 Respect for home and the family

Article 20 Personal mobility

Article 28 Adequate standard of living and social protection

(e) Recognizing that disability is an evolving concept and that disability results from the interaction between persons with impairments and attitudinal and environmental barriers that hinders their full and effective participation in society on an equal basis with others,

(c) Reasonable accommodation of the individual's requirements is provided

(a) To encourage and promote the participation, to the fullest extent possible, of persons with disabilities in mainstream sporting activities at all levels

Article 25 Health

5. Encourages States to involve persons with disabilities on an equal basis with other persons in the formulation of strategies and plans, in particular those pertaining to them

(b) Persons with disabilities can access an inclusive, quality and free primary education and secondary education on an equal basis with others in the communities in which they live

Disability Programme

(i) Ensuring that voting procedures, facilities and materials are appropriate, accessible and easy to understand and use

1. States Parties shall take all necessary measures to ensure the full enjoyment by children with disabilities of all human rights and fundamental freedoms on an equal basis with other children.

The purpose of the present Convention is to promote, protect and ensure the full and equal enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms by all persons with disabilities, and to promote respect for their inherent dignity.

States Parties reaffirm that every human being has the inherent right to life and shall take all necessary measures to ensure its effective enjoyment by persons with disabilities on an equal basis with others.

5. With a view to enabling persons with disabilities to participate on an equal basis with others in recreational, leisure and sporting activities, States Parties shall take appropriate measures

So that persons with disabilities should be entitled, on an equal basis with others, to recognition and support of their specific cultural and linguistic identity, including sign languages and deaf culture.

Data and statistics on disability

(e) To ensure that persons with disabilities have access to services from those involved in the organization of recreational, tourism, leisure and sporting activities.

Panel discussion on A rights based approach to disability and development and Disability, sports and development

(b) Accepting and facilitating the use of sign languages, Braille, augmentative and alternative communication, and all other accessible means, modes and formats of communication of their choice by persons with disabilities in official interactions

Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

Article 6 Women with disabilities

Article 7 Children with disabilities

Promotion and awareness of disability issues

Disability was accorded special importance.

(b) Persons with disabilities have access to a range of in home, residential and other community support services, including personal assistance necessary to support living and inclusion in the community, and to prevent isolation or segregation from the community

It ought to become something understood in the language that disabled people do things not in spite of or because of, but with their disabilities.

The ability of a group to leave is contextual.

Women with Disabilities Doubly Handicapped.

(i) To recognize the rights of young persons with disabilities to education without discrimination and on the basis of equal opportunity, including by ensuring an inclusive education system at all levels and lifelong learning, and to work, on an equal basis with others

(c) Promoting consultation with and the participation of rural women, including indigenous women and women with disabilities, through their organizations and networks, in the design, development and implementation of gender equality and rural development programmes and strategies

1. States Parties recognize that women and girls with disabilities are subject to multiple discrimination, and in this regard shall take measures to ensure the full and equal enjoyment by them of all human rights and fundamental freedoms.

Article 16 Freedom from exploitation, violence and abuse

(a) The right of all persons with disabilities who are of marriageable age to marry and to found a family on the basis of free and full consent of the intending spouses is recognized