{"id":14615,"date":"2019-12-04T06:32:05","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T06:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=14615"},"modified":"2019-12-04T06:32:05","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T06:32:05","slug":"burundians-with-disabilities-plead-for-access-to-election-offices-in-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/burundians-with-disabilities-plead-for-access-to-election-offices-in-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Burundians with disabilities plead for access to election offices in 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the occasion of the World Day of People living with disabilities this December 3, Cassien Bizabigomba, Chairman of the Federation of Associations of people living with disabilities in Burundi says the latter have difficulty accessing the voting material and getting information.<\/p>\n

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People with disabilities have difficulty accessing the voting material and getting information<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cThose who have physical disability don\u2019t easily access the polling stations because the places are not well landscaped and there are stairs\u201d, he says. He also adds that blind people don\u2019t have access to the voting booths. \u201cThere is no Braille for them,\u201d he says adding that people with hearing disabilities are also concerned.<\/p>\n

Mr. Bizabigomba says they don\u2019t understand the programs of electoral candidates. \u201cThere must be interpreters,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

For him, the government should intervene so that people with disabilities vote and get elected without difficulties.<\/p>\n

According to a survey conducted by the International NGO Handicap International in 5 provinces of Burundi in 2012, people with disabilities represent between 15 and 20% of the Burundian population.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On the occasion of the World Day of People living with disabilities this December 3, Cassien Bizabigomba, Chairman of the Federation of Associations of people living with disabilities in Burundi says the latter have difficulty accessing the voting material and getting information. \u201cThose who have physical disability don\u2019t easily access the polling stations because the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":11274,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[113,120],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14615"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14615"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14620,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14615\/revisions\/14620"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}