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This 11 page paper explores the laws prohibiting discrimination against the handicapped in the U.K., France and Malaysia. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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Because the subject is very broad, it seemed more logical to search for laws in specific countries rather than just put in search parameters such as "handicapped +law +non-U.S." or
"handicapped law outside U.S.," since these searches werent bringing back useful results. Instead, the search was for "disabled +laws +XXX" (it was modified in subsequent searches) where XXX is another
country; in this case, France, U.K. and Malaysia. Happily, there is a great deal of information available on the Internet, usually in the form of reports or legislation passed in
other countries. All three nations have laws in place that prevent discrimination against the handicapped, but only the U.K. has laws that are reasonably comparable to those in the U.S.;
France and Malaysia are, by their own admission, lagging behind in this area. Well begin with the U.K. In 1995, the U.K. passed the "Disability Discrimination Act," which covered discrimination
in the following areas: employment; "goods, facilities and services"; education; public transport and rail vehicles (Disability Discrimination Act 1995, 1995-hereafter DDA, 1995). The Act first defines a disabled person as
someone who "has a physical or mental impairment which has a substantial and long-term adverse effect on his ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities" (DDA, 1995). This seems to
fall into line with what most people understand as a reasonable definition of a disabled or handicapped person. With regard to employment, the Act specifically states that it is
illegal "for an employer to discriminate against a disabled person" in any of the following ways: "(a) in the arrangements which he makes for the purpose of determining to whom
he should offer employment; (b) in the terms on which he offers that person employment; or (c) by refusing to offer, or deliberately not offering, him employment" (DDA, 1995). In
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