Legal Protect of the Deaf in International Documents and the Iranian Legal System

Afsaneh Ataee; Valiollah Noori; Zeinab Pourkhaghan

doi:10.18502/avr.v31i2.9112

Afsaneh Ataee Department of Law, Faculty of Law and Theology, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad Branch, Najafabad, Iran
Valiollah Noori Department of Law, Faculty of Humanities, Islamic Azad University, Shahr-e Kord Branch, Shahr-e Kord, Iran
Zeinab Pourkhaghan Department of Law, Faculty of Law and Theology, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad Branch, Najafabad, Iran

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18502/avr.v31i2.9112

Abstract

Background and Aim: This article seeks to examine rights of deaf and unable to hear individuals in international documents as well as domestic Iranian law. In this review, supports in the mentioned documents are discussed and the weaknesses, strengths, objections, and challenges in the laws are analyzed and examined. Lack of access to community facilities lead to marginalization of deaf people. Access to community facilities is an important factor that creates equal opportunities and realizes rights of deaf people.

Recent Findings: Iran’s accession to the Treaty on the Rights of disabled people, the Global treaty on Cultural, Public, Economic as well as Children’s title, is one of salient points of these protection laws. By implementing Iran’s national and global commitments regarding titles of the deaf, it is concluded that Comprehensive Law and its executive regulations have been adopted several years before accession to the Contract on the Disability, but they cover most of concepts of the Contract on Education.

Conclusion: Given the Senate and the convention, no significant legal action was taken and the program did not address deaf directly. The lack of an effective mechanism for laws protecting the disabled people right is an institutional as well as structural obstacle for realization of disabled people, especially deaf.

Keywords: Disability; hard of hearing; human rights; international law; low hearing loss