et guide: Law prohibits 8 situations that put people with disabilities at risk

CAIRO -  6 June 2025: Law No. 10 of 2018 on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities includes many acquired rights, primarily aimed at protecting people with disabilities, ensuring their access to their entitlements, and ensuring their full integration into society.

 

The law warns against endangering a person or child with a disability or threatening their dignity. Therefore, it imposes a prison sentence of no less than six months and a fine of no less than EGP 5,000 and no more than EGP 50,000 for anyone who endangers people with special needs.

 

A person or child with a disability is considered at risk, according to Article 46 of the law, "in any situation that threatens respect for their personal dignity and autonomy, or that discriminates against them on the basis of disability, in the following cases:

 

1. If their safety, morals, health, or life are threatened.

 

2. Imprisoning or isolating a person with a disability from society without legal basis, or refusing to provide them with medical, rehabilitative, community, or legal care.

 

3. Assaulting children with disabilities by physical or other means in residential and rehabilitation homes, nurseries, and educational institutions, or sexually assaulting, harming, threatening, or exploiting them.

 

4. Using therapeutic methods or medical experiments that harm a person or child with a disability without legal basis.

 

5. Placing children or persons with disabilities in upper-floor classrooms in public or private schools without providing accessibility and accommodations for their special circumstances.

 

6. Failure to provide necessary treatment for children with disabilities, or to provide necessary food for children with intellectual disabilities. Especially in cases of metabolic disorders (diet).

 

7. Failure to provide adequate spatial, security, and guidance facilities for persons with disabilities at their workplaces, exposing them to violence, contempt, insult, or hatred, and incitement to any of these.

 

8. Placing persons with disabilities in special institutions to dispose of them because they are persons with disabilities, except in cases that warrant such placement.