Malta’s 2021 – 2030 National Strategy on the Rights of Disabled Persons

The key aim of this Strategy is to provide a roadmap for the Maltese disability sector over the next years, leading up to 2030, the target year for achievement of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.

In 2015, Malta also signed up to a commitment to implement these goals, and every Objective in this Strategy makes reference to said Goals, alongside different Articles of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD).

Following on from the 2014 National Policy on the Rights of Persons with Disability, this Strategy covers all of the fields addressed by that Policy, and subscribes to the same cross-cutting ethos, that all disabled persons, no matter who they are or what their background is, should be treated equally. It also factors in major developments in disability rights, happening both locally and internationally, since the release of the Policy.