#CRPD

Joint Statement from CRPD Committee and UN Special Envoy on Disability and Accessibility on Persons with Disabilities and #COVID19Pandemic https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/HRBodies/CRPD/Joint_Statement_Persons_with_Disabilities_COVID19.docx A reminder

“When is it OK to punish patients?”I’ll never forget when a social worker, from a psychiatric unit, asked me this. I was providing training.Of course, the short answer is NEVER.

Tania Melnyczuk

I'm an activist for the rights of nonspeaking autistic people. It's #AACAwarenessMonth and I have something rather to tell you. First of all, the principle: Communication is a basic human

A total of 4.7b was earmarked for 'special schools' at primary level btn FY 16/17 & 2020/21. Even though special schools are discrimination, the govt increased by 3% in FY

Ross McMullan #EqualUN

At #COSP13 on 30 Nov, countries will vote for 9 new CRPD committee members.@Sightsavers has been calling on countries to vote for diversity & gender equality.We asked current members, candidates

Eliza Williamson, PhD

Brazilian #disabilitytwitter is blowing up with repudiations of Bolsonaro's decree yesterday, which institutes "special" schools for children with disabilities. Essentially it launches a kind of "separate but equal"

Giancarlo de Vera ❤️ Disability | 🌈

The 7th hearing of the #DisabilityRC, into barriers to accessing safe, quality and inclusive school education and life course impacts, is about to start.I will be live tweeting for @PWDAustralia.

What about employment of people with disabilities in the COVID-19 response? The International Labour Organization has drummed up “5 key points”. @ILO calls for “social justice, effective inclusion, equality

What is this @liberal_party fetish with foodbanks? Another $100m going to food banks today. If the Liberals were so concerned about food insecurity and people living in poverty, they'd be

The280Times Trivia Channel

So @NickKouvalis,What would it take to get you to advise Doug Ford on the logical senses & benefits of keeping #TheOtherFordPromise and raising people on ODSP out of the 45%

In the rapidly changing context of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, we would like to provide some updates on how the UK NPM is approaching the crisis and taking forward our

Chris (Disabled & Mad)

CaptainMetadata

#DisabilityRC mates. Lets...get mad. Link to paper in various forms:https://disability.royalcommission.gov.au/publications/restrictive-practices-issues-paper "We understand that ‘restrictive practice’ is a term used in Australia to

Tania Melnyczuk

I am encouraging a boycott of autism research participation by autists and parents of autistic children, unless autistic people are involved in setting the goals of the studies. Don't participate

Chandrapal Sain

#DuAgainstOnlineExam#DuagainstOBE@MVenkaiahNaidu Education is both a human right in itself & an indispensable means of realizing other human rights, in Pandemic they must be given extra care ! Inalienable Human right

I’m in Castle Rock where a rally in support of local police will start in about 15 minutes. The crowd is gathering in Festival Park and will march to the

hasbee 👋🏾 😷 👍🏾 | OKU | no code

*deep breath*Dear Society-at-Large, but especially Healthcare Professionals,My name is Hasbee, and I have Type II Bipolar Disorder. I am also registered as an OKU.We really need to talk about discrimination.