"Discrimination and intolerance makes having a disability hard in Hong Kong", 22 Sep 2014

…[D]isability discrimination is a large and multifaceted problem in Hong Kong involving weak legal protection and insufficient public education. Social service experts divide the challenges for the disabled into three broad categories: public acceptance, accessibility and employment…Government statistics show unemployment among people with disabilities is 2.9 times higher than the rest of the population. Despite enacting the Disability Discrimination Ordinance, advocacy groups believe the regulation is too broadly worded to be effective…In the area of disability…[Commission officials] are looking to "introducing a duty to provide reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities in key areas of public life including employment, service provision, education, premises and the work of the government and public authorities", a commission spokesman says…