Country/Area | Laws/Acts | Language |
Afghanistan | Law on Disability Rights and Privileges | Arabic |
Albania | Law No. 8626 of 22 June 2000 on the Status of Paraplegic and Tetraplegic | Albanian |
Law No. 44/2012 on mental Health | Albanian |
Algeria | Act on the protection and promotion of persons with disabilities, adopted on 8 May 2002, Official Gazette No. 34/2002 | French |
Andorra | Law guaranteeing the rights of persons with disabilities | Catalan |
Angola | Law 21/12, of 30 July 2012, Law on Persons with Disabilities | Portuguese |
Antigua and Barbuda | Disabilities And Equal Opportunities Bill, 2017 | English |
Argentina | Law No. 22431 Comprehensive protection system for the disabled (1981) | Spanish |
Law No. 24314 on accesibility for persons with limited mobility | Spanish |
Law No. 24204 on public telephony for the hard of eharing | Spanish |
Armenia | Law of the Republic of Armenia “On social protection of persons with disabilities in the Republic of Armenia” adopted in 1993 | English |
Australia | The Disability Discrimination Act 1992 (Cth) (DDA) | English |
Austria | Federal Disability Equality Act (BGBl. I No. 82/2005) | German |
Azerbaijan | Law on prevention of disabilities and impaired health of children and rehabilitation and social protection of the disabled and children with impaired health | |
Bahamas | Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities) Act, 2014 | English |
Bahrain | Law No. 74 of 2006 regulating the care and employment of persons with disabilities | Arabic |
Bangladesh | Disability Welfare Act (2001) | English |
Rights and Protection of Persons with Disabilities Act 2013. | Bangla |
Belarus | Law of the Republic of Belarus of November 11, 1991, No. 1224-XII “On Social Protection of Disabled Persons of the Republic of Belarus” | Russian |
Belgium | Reform Act on disability and introducing a new protected status in accordance with human dignity | French |
The Act of 27 February 1987 on disability allowances | |
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) | General Law for Persons with Disabilities (2012) | Spanish |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | Laws on pension and disability insurance | Serbian |
Brazil | Law No. 13,146 on Inclusion of People with Disabiltiies (Person with Disabilities Statute) (2015) | Portuguese |
Brunei Darussalam | Old Age and Disability Pensions Law 1955/Revised Version 1984 | English |
Bulgaria | Law on the Integration of Persons with Disabilities of 01 January 2005 | English |
Burkina Faso | Law No. 012-2010/AN of 1 April, 2010 on the protection and promotion of the rights of persons with disabilities | French |
Cambodia | Law on the Protection and the Promotion of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities | English (unofficial translation) |
Cameroon | Law No 2010/002 of 13 April 2010 on the protection and promotion of persons with disabilities | French |
Decree No. 2018/6233 fixing the procedures for the application of Law N° 2010/002 of 13 April 2010 on the protection and promotion of persons with disabilities | English |
Canada | Services and Supports to Promote the Social Inclusion of Persons with Developmental Disabilities Act, 2008 | English |
Chad | Law No. 007/PR/2007 Bearing Protection for Disabled Persons | French |
Chile | Law 20,422 establishing rules on equal opportunities and social inclusion of persons with disabilities (2010) | Spanish |
China | The Law of the People’s Republic of China on the Protection of Disabled Persons (2008) | English |
China (Hong Kong) | Disability Discrimination Ordinance (Cap. 487) (DDO) | English |
China (Macau) | Law 9/83/M of 3 October on the suppression of architectural barriers | Portuguese |
Colombia | Enacting Law 1618, through which the provisions are established to ensure the full exercise of the rights of persons with disabilties (2013) | Spanish |
Cook Islands | Disability Act of 2008 | English |
Costa Rica | Act 7600 on Equal Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities (1996). | Spanish |
Law No. 9379 on the Promotion of Personal Autonomy of Persons with Disabilities (2016) | Spanish |
Croatia | Law on the Croatian Registry of Persons with Disability (2001) | Croatian |
Law on Professional Rehabilitation and Employment of Persons with Disabilities (2002) | English |
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea | Law on the Protection of Persons with Disabilities | |
Dominican Republic | Law No. 5-13 of 5 January 2013 on Organic Equal Rights of Persons with Disabilities | Spanish |
Ecuador | Organic Law on Disabilities (2012) | Spanish |
El Salvador | Law of Equality of Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities | Spanish |
Ethiopia | Proclamation of the Rights to Employment for Persons with Disabilities No. 568/2008 | English |
Fiji | Fiji National Council for disabled Persons Act 1994 | English |
Act No. 4 of 2018 – Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act 2018 | English |
Finland | Disability Services Act 380/1987 | Finnish |
Act on Intellectual Disabilities 519/1977 | Finnish |
France | Law No. 2005-102 of 11 February 2005 on equal rights, opportunities, participation and citizenship to individuals with disabilities | French |
Gabon | Act No. 19/95 of 13 February 1996 on Social Protection for Persons with Disabilities | French |
Georgia | Law of Georgia of 16 October 1997 №959 on Social Protection of Persons with Disabilities | Georgian |
Germany | Book IX of the Social Code ‘Integration and Rehabilitation of Disabled People (SGB IX, 2001) | German |
Equality for Persons with Disabilities Act (BGG) | German |
General Act on Equal Treatment Act (AGG) | English |
Ghana | Persons with Disability Act, 2006 (Act 715) | English |
Guatemala | Decree No. 135-96 on the law on the care for persons with disabilities | Spanish |
Haiti | Law on the Integration of Persons with Disabilities (2012) | French |
Honduras | Law on equity and integral development for people with disabilities (2005) | Spanish |
Hungary | Disability act Act XXVI of 1998 on the rights and equal opportunities of persons with disabilities | Hungarian |
India | Persons with Disabilities Act 2016 | English |
Indonesia | Law No. 8/2016 on persons with disabilities | Indonesian |
Iran (Islamic Republic of) | Comprehensive Law on the Protection of Persons with Disabilities of 2004 | Persian |
Iraq | Act No. 38 of 2013 on Care of Persons with Disabilities and Special Needs | Arabic |
Israel | Equal Rights for Persons with Disabilities Law 5758-1998 (the “Equal Rights Law”) | English |
Equal Rights for Persons with Disabilities (Service Accessibility Adjustments) Regulations 5773-2013 | English |
Italy | Law 104/92 – Framework Law for assistance, social integration and rights of the handicapped | Italian |
Law 68/99 – Norms for the right to work of the disabled | Italian |
Jamaica | Disabilities Act 2014 | English |
Japan | Basic Act for Persons with Disabilities (August 2011) | English |
Services and Supports for Persons with Disabilities Act (June 2012) | English |
Jordan | Law No. 20 for the year 2017 on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities | English |
Kazakhstan | Law No. 39 of 13 April 2005 on Social Protection of disabled Persons | English |
Kenya | Persons With Disabilities Act No. 14 of 2003 | English |
Latvia | Disability Law | Latvian |
Lithuania | Law of the Republic of Lithuania on Social Integration of Persons with Disabilities | English (unofficial translation) |
Luxemburg | Law No. 169 of 28 July 2011 on the rights of persons with disabilities | French |
Malawi | Disability Act, 2012 | English |
Maldives | Protection of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Provision of Financial Assistance (Law No. 8/2010) | |
Malta | Equal Opportunities (Persons with Disability) Act | English |
Marshall Islands | Rights of Persons with disabilities Act, 2015 | English |
Mauritius | Constitution Article 16 | English |
National Council for Rehabilitation of Disabled Persons Act | |
Training and Employment of Disabled Persons Act | English |
Mexico | General Law for the Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities (2011) | Spanish |
Monaco | Law No. 1.410 of 02 December 2014 for the protection and autonomy and promotion of the rights of persons with disabilities | French |
Mongolia | Law on the Human Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2016 | English |
Montenegro | Law on prohibition of discrimination | English |
Myanmar | Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Law No. 30/2015 – Law on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities | Burmese |
Nepal | Act No. 2039 of 1982 on the Protection and Welfare of the Disabled Persons | English |
Netherlands | Act on Equal Treatment on the Grounds of Disability or Chronic Illness | English (Unofficial Translation) |
New Zealand | New Zealand Public Health and Disability Act 2000 | English |
Nicaragua | Law No. 763 on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2011) | Spanish |
Niger | Ordinance No. 93-012 of 2 March 1993 | |
Ordinance No. 2010-028 of 20 May 2010 | |
Nigeria | Discrimination Against Persons with Disabilities (Prohibition) Act 2018 | English |
Norway | Anti-Discrimination and Accessibility Act (No. 42 of 2008). | Norwegian |
Oman | Welfare and Rehabilitation of Persons with Disabilities Act 2008 | Arabic |
Palau | The Disabled Person’s Anti-Discrimination Act | English |
Panama | Law 15 of 31 May 2016 ammending Law 42 of 1999 on Equalization of Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities | Spanish |
Paraguay | Law 4692 establishing benefits for employers for the incorporation of persons with disabilities in the private sector | Spanish |
Law 122/90 establishing rights and privileges for persons with disabilities | Spanish |
Peru | General Law for the Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities (2012) | Spanish |
Philippines | Republic Act No. 7277 – Magna Carta for Persons with Disabilities | English |
Poland | Act on Vocational and Social Rehabilitation and Employment of Disabled People | Polish |
Portugal | Framework Act 38/2004 of 18 August – General Basis of the Legal System for Prevention, Habilitation, Rehabilitation and Participation of Persons with Disabilities | Portuguese |
Qatar | Persons with Special Needs Act No. 2 of 2004 | English |
Republic of Korea | Act on the Prohibition of Discrimination of Disabled Persons | English |
Act on Welfare of Persons with Disabilities | English |
Republic of Moldova | Law No. 60 of 30.03.2012 on the social inclusion of persons with disabilities | Romanian |
Republic of North Macedonia | Law on Employment of Persons with Disability | |
Law on Civilian Invalids of War | |
The Rulebook on Assessing Specific Needs of Persons with Physical or Mental Disabilities | |
Romania | Law no. 448/2006 Regarding the Protection and Promotion of the Rights of Disabled Persons | English |
Russian Federation | Law No. 181-FZ of 24 November 1995 on Social Protection of the Disabled (as amended on 02 July 2013) | Russian |
Rwanda | Law No. 01/2007 of 20 January 2007 Relating to the Protection of Persons with Disabilities in General | English |
Saudi Arabia | Disability Law 2000 | Arabic |
Senegal | Social orientation law no.2010-15 of July 6, 2010 | French |
Serbia | Law on Prevention of Discrimination against Persons with Disabilities (LPDPD) – Official Gazette of RS No. 33/06 | Serbian |
Law on Professional Rehabilitation and Employment of Persons with Disabilities (LPREPD) – Official Gazette of RS No. 36/09 | Serbian |
Sierra Leone | Persons with Disability Act, 2011 | English |
Slovenia | The Law on Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment of Persons with Disabilities (ZZRZ)I | Slovenian |
The Equalisation of Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities Act (ZIMI) | Slovenian |
South Africa | Code of Good Practice: Key Aspects on the Employment of People with Disabilities | English |
The South African Library for the Blind Act | English |
Spain | Act No. 13/1982 of 7 April 1982 on social integration of the handicapped | Spanish |
Act No. 51/2003 of 2 December 2003 on equality of opportunity, nondiscrimination and universal accessibility for persons with disabilities | Spanish |
Sri Lanka | 1996 Protection of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act No. 28 | English |
Sudan | Persons with Disabilities Act of 2009 | Arabic |
Sweden | Act concerning Support and Service to Persons with Certain Functional Disabilities (LSS) | English |
Switzerland | Federal Act on the Elimination of Discrimination against People with Disabilities | English |
Tanzania | Persons with Disabilities Act (2010) | English |
Thailand | The Persons with Disabilities Empowerment Act B.E. 2550 (2007) | English (unofficial translation) |
Togo | Act No. 2004-005 of 23 April 2004 on the social protection of disabled persons | French |
Trinidad and Tobago | Equal Opportunity Act of 2000 | English |
Tunisia | Law No. 83 of 15 August 2005 on the advancement and protection of persons with disabilities | Arabic |
Turkey | Turkish Disability Act (TDA) No. 5378 of 2005 | English |
Uganda | Persons with Disabilities Act (2006) | English |
National Council for Disability Act (2003) | English |
Ukraine | Law “On Basics of Social Protection for the Disabled in Ukraine” | Ukrainian |
United Arab Emirates | Federal Law No. 29 of 2006 In Respect of The Rights of People with Special Needs | English |
Law No. (3) of 2022 Concerning the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Emirate of Dubai | English | Arabic |
United Kingdom | Equality Act 2010 | English |
United States | Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, as amended | English |
| Rehabilitation Act of 1973 – As Amended Through P.L. 114–95, Enacted 10 December 2015 | English |
| Individuals with Disabilities Education Act | English |
Uruguay | Law No.29973 – General Law on Persons with Disabilities | Spanish |
Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of | Persons with Disabilities Act of 29 December 2006. | Spanish |
18,651 Comprehensive Protection Act of Persons with Disabilities (2010) | Spanish |
Viet Nam | Law on Persons with Disabilities (No. 51/2010/QH12) | English |
Decree 28/2012/ND-CP dated April 10th 2012 of the Government guiding the implementation of some articles of the Law on Persons with Disabilities | Vietnamese |