{"id":766,"date":"2026-10-07T15:52:47","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T07:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/test.local\/bie-daan-amidrakh-erkh-uusel-khugjil\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T15:52:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T07:52:47","slug":"bie-daan-amidrakh-erkh-uusel-khugjil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/up-ilc.mn\/en\/bie-daan-amidrakh-erkh-uusel-khugjil\/","title":{"rendered":"The Right to Independent Living: Origins and Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are you planning or starting an initiative to include people with disabilities in your business, employ them, or support their participation in society and develop their skills?<\/p>\n<p>If so, here is some information and advice about a system based on a different approach that may support your plans. It is the concept of the right to independent living for people with disabilities, implemented as one approach to social protection in many countries.<\/p>\n<p>Creating an accessible environment alone does not resolve every issue involved in building a compassionate society. We also need effective activities and approaches that enable everyone's participation. Here is an introduction to this system.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The origins and development of the right to independent living:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Everyone is born with inherent dignity and equal worth. Every person is unique and deserves equal respect, freedom, independence and opportunities to make decisions and choices about their life. Yet, for many reasons, the dignity of people with disabilities has repeatedly been undermined. From the 1960s, people with disabilities began actively campaigning for their rights, starting in the United States and spreading to other countries. This powerful movement led to new systems in social protection. One was independent living, an approach that transformed the disability sector.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, people with disabilities were viewed mainly as welfare recipients, and government policies and social welfare services focused primarily on rehabilitation and medical approaches. Today, this is giving way to a rights-based approach that supports people's actual needs and prioritizes participation. In other words, government policies, decisions and activities aim to help people with disabilities participate as fully as possible in society, make their own decisions and choices, and live with responsibility for their lives. Internationally, this approach to social protection is known as Independent Living. In the past, it was believed that only doctors and specialists understood disability-related issues and could provide support. In contrast, the independent living approach recognizes that people with disabilities are themselves experts who can understand the wishes and needs of others with disabilities. Based on this principle, in 1972 Ed Roberts, a resident of Berkeley, California, with a severe physical disability involving muscle weakness, founded the world's first independent living center. Similar centers subsequently opened in Houston, Boston and other cities across the country.<\/p>\n<p>From its beginnings in the United States, the system spread to Canada and Europe. In 1986, the Human care association introduced it in Japan through a model project, and it is now implemented as part of the social protection system. Following Japan, countries including South Korea, Thailand, Taiwan, Nepal, Pakistan and Mongolia have adopted independent living approaches. Whatever the severity of a person's disability, independent living support services can enable participation in society without barriers.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you planning an initiative to include people with disabilities in your business, employ them or support their participation and skills development\u2026<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_th_video_url":"","_th_real_date":"","_th_date_status":"unverified","_th_source":"Excel 5.2!B2 (\u0437\u04e9\u0432\u043b\u04e9\u0433\u04e9\u04e9\u043d\u0438\u0439 \u044d\u0445 \u0431\u0430\u0440\u0438\u043c\u0442)","_th_pdf_url":"https:\/\/up-ilc.mn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/th-il-1.pdf","_th_yt_title":"","_th_yt_channel":"","_th_kind":"\u041d\u0438\u0439\u0442\u043b\u044d\u043b","footnotes":""},"categories":[16,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-bie-daan-amidrakh","category-blog-khunii-erkh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/up-ilc.mn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/up-ilc.mn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/up-ilc.mn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/up-ilc.mn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/up-ilc.mn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/up-ilc.mn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/up-ilc.mn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/up-ilc.mn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/up-ilc.mn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}