{"id":178507,"date":"2024-08-14T09:58:08","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T07:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-pwd-faces-difficulty-accessing-capitol-building\/"},"modified":"2024-08-14T09:58:08","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T07:58:08","slug":"liberia-pwd-faces-difficulty-accessing-capitol-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-pwd-faces-difficulty-accessing-capitol-building\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: PWD Faces Difficulty Accessing Capitol Building"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Liberia has made progress in disability law and policy, but still lacks full compliance with the <a href=\"https:\/\/social.desa.un.org\/issues\/disability\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UNCRPD<\/a> and no regulations in place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">The UNCRPD urges member countries to promote inclusivity for Persons with Disabilities (PWD) at all levels, but many public spaces remain inadequately accessible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"57\">&#8220;So here is a call on the new ministers at the EJS ministerial complex, the ministry of health, and lawmakers at the capitol building, especially the senate side, to fix the elevator and open up the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408140073.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liberia has made progress in disability law and policy, but still lacks full compliance with the UNCRPD and no regulations in place. The UNCRPD urges member countries to promote inclusivity for Persons with Disabilities (PWD) at all levels, but many public spaces remain inadequately accessible. &#8220;So here is a call on the new ministers at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":178508,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[28242,258,256,6797,9887,44459,5080,4712,1107,257,29888,254],"class_list":["post-178507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-accessing","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-building","tag-capitol","tag-difficulty","tag-faces","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-pwd","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}