Access For All
"The ideal of equal opportunity holds no water unless it truly
includes all people, including people with disabilities."
K. Martinez
World Blog Action Day is now only five days away.
Those who follow my blog will know the theme this year is
is Human Rights
As a advocate for people living with disability in Australia, I can tell you first hand that the rights of people with disability in Australia are often abuse. The likely hood of abuse increase for those living in residential facilities and group homes. Currently there are over 6,000 people with disability under the age of 40 in nursing homes. These facilitates and the programs are designed for those in their late 70's, 80's and 90's.
Younger people under 40 rarely have the opportunity to access the community and there only interaction is with people twice their age. The incidence of likely emotional, finical, physical and sexual abuse increases if you are female and further escalate in you are of indigenous or Torrist Straight decent. ,
It is a shock to head that there is such a high incidence of people living within Australia who are denied so much access to basic humane rights and recently the Australian Government received a negative report card from the UN Commission on Human Rights. Many human rights areas are not covered specifically for people living with disabilities under Australian Legislation.
Please join me to learn more on October 16, 2013.
Debbie
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