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Recommended measures (1)

• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Labour and Social AffairsMinistry of Culture
  The Committee recommends that the State party fully implement the National Inclusion Initiative and take the measures tailored to specific needs of persons with disabilities …

Recommended measures (1)

• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Culture
  The Committee recommends that the State party take all steps necessary to secure and promote inclusive and accessible facilities for recreational, leisure and sporting activities, …

Recommended measures (2)

• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Local Government and Modernisation
  The State party should ensure that electoral procedures, facilities and materials are inclusive of and accessible to all persons with disabilities, including by providing materials …
• Type of action: Awareness-raising and disseminationPolicies, strategies, and action plansResponsible ministries: Ministry of Local Government and Modernisation
  The State party should promote the participation of persons with disabilities, including women with disabilities, in political life and public decision-making with measurable targets and …

Recommended measures (1)

• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs
  The Committee recommends that the State party ensure that social protection policies and programmes ensure the necessary income levels by taking into account the additional …

Recommended measures (5)

• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesLaws and regulationsResponsible ministries: Ministry of Labour and Social AffairsMinistry of Culture
  The State party should combat stereotypes and prejudices against persons with disabilities in the labour market and adopt regulations to address disability-based discrimination, including the …
• Type of action: Laws and regulationsPolicies, strategies, and action plansResponsible ministries: Ministry of CultureMinistry of Local Government and Modernisation
  The State party should establish a requirement for universal design in the workplace for employers in the Equality and Anti-Discrimination Act, and prepare and implement …
• Type of action: Awareness-raising and disseminationResponsible ministries: Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs
  The State party should make active, targeted and systematic efforts to promote the employment of persons with disabilities in the private and public labour markets.
• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesResourcesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs
  The State party should give a clear mandate and sufficient resources to the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration to improve employment opportunities for persons with …
• Type of action: Policies, strategies, and action plansResponsible ministries: Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs
  The State party should consider extending the target for five per cent of new employees in the public sector to be persons with disabilities to …

Recommended measures (3)

• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Health and Care Services
  The State party should strengthen measures to ensure the accessibility of health-care services and facilities in the community, including for persons with intellectual or psychosocial …
• Type of action: Training and capacity buildingAwareness-raising and disseminationResponsible ministries: Ministry of Health and Care Services
  The State party should raise awareness about the rights of persons with disabilities among medical professionals.
• Type of action: Training and capacity buildingResponsible ministries: Ministry of Health and Care Services
  The State party should take measures to provide persons with disabilities, especially women, with information in accessible formats on accessible health-care services and facilities, including …

Recommended measures (5)

• Type of action: Laws and regulationsResponsible ministries: Ministry of CultureMinistry of Education and Research
  The State party should strengthen anti-discrimination provisions to explicitly cover disability-based discrimination in education and to provide an accessible and effective complaint mechanism.
• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesResourcesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Education and Research
  The State party should adopt national standards for the provision of effective individualized support measures in mainstream education, and allocate sufficient financial and human resources …
• Type of action: Training and capacity buildingResponsible ministries: Ministry of Education and Research
  The State party should ensure that all teachers have the appropriate skills for individualized instruction and ensure that individualized support measures do not entail costs …
• Type of action: Laws and regulationsResponsible ministries: Ministry of Education and Research
  The State party should introduce legislation based on the human rights model of disability that fully complies with article 24 of the Convention in order …
• Type of action: Teaching and curriculumResponsible ministries: Ministry of Education and Research
  The State party should take measures to guarantee that students with disabilities receive training in the skills necessary to enhance their learning capability, in an …

Recommended measures (2)

• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Children and Families
  The State party should ensure that accessible and inclusive community support and safeguard mechanisms are available for parents with disabilities to support them in the …
• Type of action: Laws and regulationsResponsible ministries: Ministry of Children and Families
  The State party should take measures to ensure that the removal of children from their parents on the basis of their parents’ or their own …

Recommended measures (3)

• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Local Government and Modernisation
  The State party should increase the provision of assistive technologies and information in accessible formats that are appropriate for persons with disabilities, including accessible websites, …
• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Culture
  The State party should increase the accessibility of mass media, particularly in live broadcasting.
• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Culture
  The State party should strengthen the provisions of the Broadcasting Act to ensure that all broadcasters provide captioning at all times.

Recommended measures (4)

• Type of action: ResourcesPolicies, strategies, and action plansResponsible ministries: Ministry of Health and Care Services
  The State party should develop, implement and provide adequate human, financial and technical resources for an effective deinstitutionalization plan, particularly for implementing the transformation to …
• Type of action: ResourcesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Labour and Social AffairsMinistry of Health and Care Services
  The State party should adopt the measures necessary to ensure that persons with disabilities have a legal entitlement to a sufficient personal budget for independent …
• Type of action: Laws and regulationsPractices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Health and Care Services
  The State party should adopt legal and practical measures to end coercive measures in health and care services, which should guide the assessment of the …
• Type of action: ResourcesPractices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs
  The State party should provide adequate human and financial resources to provide persons who are deaf or hard of hearing with interpreting services when needed, …