Current campaigns – act now

Guest post by Emma Vogelmann. As a disabled rights activist, you are used to fighting for your voice and concerns to be heard by others, particularly by others who can affect real change. So you can imagine how surprised I was when I was asked by Inclusion London to be on a panel of young activists at Amnesty International’s International Council Meeting (ICM) in Rome!

Inclusion London CEO Tracey Lazard was on Newsnight speaking about the UN’s damning verdict on the Government’s treatment of Disabled people, following the release of the UN Disability Committee’s Concluding Observations.

Rica, a consumer research charity is developing online product reviews for disabled consumers and are asking for Deaf and Disabled people’s thoughts and ideas on how best to make the reviews relevant, accessible and inclusive.

If you are a direct victim or an indirect victim of online hate the Mayor’s Office of Policing and Crime (MOPAC) invites you to fill the Victim’s experience survey.  

The UK Government’s claim to be a ‘world leader in disability issues’ has today been crushed by the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The Committee has released damning Concluding Observations on the UK, following its first Review of the government’s compliance with the Convention.

The UN Disability Committee were clear and robust in their condemnation of the impact of austerity on Deaf and Disabled people and the Government’s abject failure to implement the Convention and engage with DDPOs.

Deaf and Disabled People’s Organisations welcome the public unity of the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in their clear criticism of the UK Government’s ‘grave and systematic violations’ of disabled people’s human rights.

We know Independent Living is about us having equal choices and living a normal life like everybody else. It is not about leaving us without support. So we intervened in the Davey case to ensure the Care Act delivers our right to Independent living. We also came to show solidarity with Luke and highlight the enormous struggle we have to go through to get even very basic things in our lives.

The Mayor asks for your views on his vision for a diverse and inclusive city and his office is holding an event for DDPOs about the Diversity and Inclusion Strategy on 5th September in Brixton.

How do you want to get in touch with the Met? Mayor Sadiq Khan asks for your views on accessing Met Police services in the light of huge cuts to the funding for the Met police made by the government.