The UN eyes are on us!

When we think of human rights is often involves young girls being sold into the sex salve industry by families in Asia and Africa or children being recruit to the RIA army in Uganda.  However this week the UN in Geneva has it eyes fixed on Australia for breaches in Human Rights.

The UN is demanding Australian lifts its game around its treatment of people living with disability.  Members of Australian Society living with Disability are marginalizes from  the community and yet to experience full integration into the community.

People with disabilities experience isolation, unemployment, underemployment, poor access to education, lack of appropriate health care and barriers to gaining access to mobility equipment and communication devices.  This is in one of the most prospers countries in the world.  We escape relativity unaffected by the global financial crisis.

Parents needing to fundraise to by a wheelchair for their child and then wait for the chair to be prescribe only to wait years for a chair to arrive, more often than not to find the chair that arrives at the doorstep is unusable due to the grow of the child.

The week the UN puts Australia on noticed and their timing couldn’t be more appropriate with Australians going to the polls on Saturday. While criticisms of the Labors parties handling of Disability Care Australia continues, the LNP is not clearly define the changes it will make to the system and how it will be funded and maintain. 

On the human rights issues concerning people with disabilities and their continual marginalization   the LNP remain silent. Is their attitude towards refugees and turning back the boats policies and indication on how under a LNP government, Australian will continue to fail to meet the Humane Rights Standards of the UN when it comes to people living with disabilities.

Is that something as Australians we are willing to accept?  Unless we lift our game we will find ourselves in danger of losing of seat on the UN Council.

Disability Care Australia is not the latest response to fund the support and care needs of Australians with disabilities.  It is a response to allow Australia to meet the standards of Human Rights of all Australians as outlined by the UN.

A summary of the UN's dialogue can be heard here