Disability advocates support people with disabilities to realise their rights to access services and be included in the community. These rights are laid out in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Yet we find that discrimination, violence, and neglect is a much more usual experience for people with disability than full inclusion.
Why aren’t the rights of people with disability embedded effectively in our universal service systems and mainstream policies? What needs to happen for full inclusion to be real and ensure that the lives of people with disability are free from abuse and exploitation? We need a fresh, strong wind to blow us out of these doldrums!
Your account section
DARU is auspiced by DAV and VCOSS with funding from the Victorian Government Office for Disability
