interpreters, legal aid centres, other judicial and administrative bodies intervening in judicial or quasi-judicial instances; Part of the effort to ensure access to justice is training of personnel working in the field. According to Ethiopia’s initial report to the CRPD committee 2012, some effort has been made to organize trainings in collaboration with DPOs and NGOs. The initial report said that In 2011, About of Addis Ababa regular and traffic police officers were given training on treating persons with disabilities in the police investigation process and managing disability on the roads and streets. The training was focused more on sexual offences against women with disabilities. Besides police officers and representatives of Addis Ababa justice bureau received training on how to treat persons with disabilities in cases where the later appear at the institutions as parties to civil and criminal proceedings, witnesses and reporters of crime commission. The Ministry of Justice, which is now the attorney general office, has also given short- and long-term trainings to Attorneys, lawyers, court staffs, legal experts, judges, and middle managers on mainstreaming disability issue and sign language. In addition to that, the reply to the initial report also states that the Federation of Ethiopian National Associations of Persons with Disabilities (FENAPD) provides free legal support in the legal process to its members when they face constraints. c. education programmes on the right of access to justice for persons with disabilities for law students as well as in schools of social work, sign language interpretation, forensic science, psychiatry and psychology, among other relevant faculties; University faculties in Ethiopia do not have disability module. However, with respect to legal aid centres, there are University human rights centers that are established at universities for the purpose of promoting human rights and social justice nationally and locally. In this regard, Addis Ababa university school of law legal aid center is a good example. Although it is not specific to persons with disabilities, the project includes access to justice to PWDs in its practice. 3. Does your country have laws, policies and strategies to ensure the participation of persons with disabilities on an basis with others in the judiciary or other
interpreters, legal aid centres, other judicial and administrative bodies intervening in judicial or quasi-judicial instances; Part of the effort to ensure access to justice is training of personnel working in the field. According to Ethiopia’s initial report to the CRPD committee 2012, some effort has been made to organize trainings in collaboration with DPOs and NGOs. The initial report said that In 2011, About of Addis Ababa regular and traffic police officers were given training on treating persons with disabilities in the police investigation process and managing disability on the roads and streets. The training was focused more on sexual offences against women with disabilities. Besides police officers and representatives of Addis Ababa justice bureau received training on how to treat persons with disabilities in cases where the later appear at the institutions as parties to civil and criminal proceedings, witnesses and reporters of crime commission. The Ministry of Justice, which is now the attorney general office, has also given short- and long-term trainings to Attorneys, lawyers, court staffs, legal experts, judges, and middle managers on mainstreaming disability issue and sign language. In addition to that, the reply to the initial report also states that the Federation of Ethiopian National Associations of Persons with Disabilities (FENAPD) provides free legal support in the legal process to its members when they face constraints. c. education programmes on the right of access to justice for persons with disabilities for law students as well as in schools of social work, sign language interpretation, forensic science, psychiatry and psychology, among other relevant faculties; University faculties in Ethiopia do not have disability module. However, with respect to legal aid centres, there are University human rights centers that are established at universities for the purpose of promoting human rights and social justice nationally and locally. In this regard, Addis Ababa university school of law legal aid center is a good example. Although it is not specific to persons with disabilities, the project includes access to justice to PWDs in its practice. 3. Does your country have laws, policies and strategies to ensure the participation of persons with disabilities on an basis with others in the judiciary or other