The Laws for Persons with Disabilities in Promoting Occupation in Greater Mekong Sub Region

Abstract

This article is to mention about the law related to the promotion of the occupations of disabled people in Greater Mekong sub region which consists of Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, and Thailand. The whole countries signed in the Convention on the Rights of the Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). But the legal measures at the national level are different. Thailand has the most outstanding legal measures because of the obvious provisions resulting more opportunities of employment and freelance careers than the disabled people in those 4 countries. The process of the disabled people’s occupation promotion in Thailand focuses on developing the disabled people’s potential to be self-reliant based on their rights existing in the law. While Myanmar has not any specific laws in employing the disabled people because they have continuously longstanding political problems. However, the 5 countries in Greater Mekong sub region have the same problem and obstacle is the enforcement of the law without justice and this article has provided the suggestion involved role adjustment of disabled people government agency in the country and develop cooperation and network for share international knowledge within region that leading to the increase of effective measures and law enforcement.