A bill governing the rights of disabled people passed in August is set to take effect next Wednesday.
The bill is aimed at protecting the human rights of the 1.12 million mentally and physically challenged people living in Taiwan.
To further promote disabled rights, the Cabinet also passed several related laws Thursday, including the establishment of a disabled rights task force and improvements to the quality of accessible facilities. The laws will be submitted to the legislature for final approval.
At a Cabinet meeting on Thursday, Premier Jiang Yi-huah said Taiwan is hoping to keep up with the pace of advances in disabled rights around the world so that people with disabilities in Taiwan will be able to develop their potential to the full.
The United Nations passed The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on December 13, 2006.
Under current rules in Taiwan, disabled people must make up at least 3% of employees in government agencies, public schools and state-run enterprises with 34 or more employees.