What about employment of people with disabilities in the COVID-19 response? https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤔" title="Thinking face" aria-label="Emoji: Thinking face"> The International Labour Organization has drummed up “5 key points”. @ILO calls for “social justice, effective inclusion, equality of opportunities and decent work”. (thread) https://www.ilo.org/global/topics/disability-and-work/WCMS_741287/lang--en/index.htm">https://www.ilo.org/global/to...

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="1⃣" title="Keycap digit one" aria-label="Emoji: Keycap digit one"> Grounding its guidance in the right to equality, the @ILO says that “work-from-home policies must ensure that workers with disabilities have appropriate adjustments at home” (see also CRPD Arts. 2 & 5: discrimination includes failure to provide reasonable accommodation)

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="2⃣" title="Keycap digit two" aria-label="Emoji: Keycap digit two"> Information on telework arrangements must be accessible, “including through the use of sign language, subtitles and accessible websites” https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🖥️" title="Desktop computer" aria-label="Emoji: Desktop computer"> (see Art.9 CRPD on accessibility)

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="3⃣" title="Keycap digit three" aria-label="Emoji: Keycap digit three"> Governments should “cover the extra costs related to disability, which may increase due to the impact of the crisis and lead to a disruption of their support system” (See Art.28 CRPD: adequate standard of living, incl food, clothing and housing)

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="4⃣" title="Keycap digit four" aria-label="Emoji: Keycap digit four"> To ensure employment rights, there should be a “multiplicity of views - from governments, workers’ and employers’ organizations and organizations of persons with disabilities" because diversity "brings a multiplicity of solutions.”

This is consistent with Art.4(3) CRPD which sets out the state obligation to "closely consult and actively involve" (a really action-packed duty!) people with disabilities and their organisations in developing and implementing laws and policies that affect them https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤝" title="Handshake" aria-label="Emoji: Handshake">

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="5⃣" title="Keycap digit five" aria-label="Emoji: Keycap digit five"> The @ILO& #39;s 5th point is the most interestinghttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🧐" title="Face with monocle" aria-label="Emoji: Face with monocle"> It& #39;s a challenge for us to re-frame the narrative. People with disabilities should be “co-creators of COVID-19 responses, as champions and users, not as victims”. I& #39;m impressed that a UN agency is making this point https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😃" title="Smiling face with open mouth" aria-label="Emoji: Smiling face with open mouth">

The @ILO’s advice is grounded in Article 27 of the CRPD which requires states to take concrete steps to “safeguard and promote the realization of the right to work” of people with disabilities https://www.un.org/development/desa/disabilities/convention-on-the-rights-of-persons-with-disabilities/article-27-work-and-employment.html">https://www.un.org/developme...

As you may by now have expected, I’ve updated my blog on "Disability, coronavirus and international human rights" https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤓" title="Nerd face" aria-label="Emoji: Nerd face"> https://insights.doughtystreet.co.uk/post/102g27s/disability-coronavirus-and-international-human-rights">https://insights.doughtystreet.co.uk/post/102g...

Finally https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😳" title="Flushed face" aria-label="Emoji: Flushed face"> please join me for a Zoom webinar https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🧑‍💻" title="Technologist" aria-label="Emoji: Technologist">on disability and international human rights law in the coronavirus response. Tuesday 14 April 3pm-4pm BST https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🕒" title="Clock face three oclock" aria-label="Emoji: Clock face three oclock">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇬🇧" title="Flag of United Kingdom" aria-label="Emoji: Flag of United Kingdom">(10am EDThttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇺🇸" title="Flag of United States" aria-label="Emoji: Flag of United States">). Sign up here https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👇" title="Down pointing backhand index" aria-label="Emoji: Down pointing backhand index">: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/learning-disability-coronavirus-and-international-human-rights-law-tickets-102331450122?aff=affiliate1">https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/learnin...