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The Human Rights Page     

Disabled Rights

A new page, promoting human rights! As I have limited space and I'm already promoting a variety things I'm going to start with a link to the United Nations - well I might as well start at the top! The subject of this website is the rights of Disabled people. I was born with a genetic problem - that has led to health problems. I don't publicise those on the Internet, but when government, national and local, make laws and then break them. In this case International laws on human rights and here in the UK, the European convention on Human rights, the UK law ratifying that convention and the Disability Rights Act; then it's time to publicise their actions - it is a democracy! (I think!) If you look at the UN logo below, you can probably guess the theme of this year campaign - yes - access to the Internet for disabled people! E-accessibility! The International Day of Disabled people is on the 3rd of December 2006. Disabled, doesn't just mean people in wheelchairs - there are many different types of disability. Click the logo below, learn more and get involved! If anyone from the UN visits this page - next year make the day earlier in the year - December is too close to Christmas......

 

If you are in the UK and over the age of 18. You also have the right to vote. This link will give you access, for a fee, to the electoral roll over over 100 million people. This is amazing when the think that the population is only around 60,000,000 and around 16,000,000 of those are children and under 18 years of age. So who are the 56,000,000 on the Electoral roll who aren't actually UK citizens. Another interesting fact I read is that 84 million National Insurance numbers have been issued. So we also have around 40,000,000 extra people eligible to work in the UK. I wonder who the 16,000,000 are that can vote, but can't work because they haven't got a National Insurance number. Statistics, are fascinating, they give us such an insight into life in the UK.

http://www.electoralrolluk.co.uk/

This link is to direct gov and is supposed to give you information on your rights under the Disability Discrimination Act.

http://www.direct.gov.uk/DisabledPeople/fs/en

This is the link to the Disability Rights Commission:

http://www.drc-gb.org/

If you are on Incapacity benefit or DLA then you are probably aware the government has already made changes in the UK and are planning more. The changes are in my opinion unconstitutional. They are in breach of the Disability Discrimination Act, The Human Rights Act, The European Convention on Human Rights and of course International law too. People must lobby their MP's to stop the changes and persuade the government it is electoral suicide to continue to attack the most vulnerable in society and perpetuate the poverty trap. Government ministers cannot lecture other countries on Human Rights, when they walk all over the rights of their own citizens her in the UK. If you are on these benefits and sick or disabled these sites may be of interest. The first is benefits and work. Lots of information on there but it is better if you become a member:

http://benefitsandwork.co.uk

              

I haven't had chance to have a good look at but promised them a link - they help with DLA:

http://dlahelpgroup.com/main

Liberty run an advice service on human rights:

http://www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk/contact/1-advice-services/index.shtml

Disability Alliance have organised a campaign around the welfare reform bill:
 

http://www.disabilityalliance.org/

Disability Law Service take on cases on behalf of individual disabled people:
 

http://www.dls.org.uk/

There will be an email protest against the proposed "Welfare Reform Bill" in the UK. If you would like to be part of an email protest - let me know. This bill is 84 pages long and mentions the word work 137 times - it's not about the welfare of the disabled and chronically sick - it's about cutting benefits on the pretext that they are "fit for work". The Bill if it becomes law will be in breach of the Human rights Act 1998, the European Convention on Human Rights, the Disability Discrimination Act and last but not least the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. They make you laugh, lecturing other countries on their Human Rights records. In the meantime there is a link to the Disability Rights Commission on this page. If you or a member of you family is sick or disabled - maybe your grandma or grandpa through age and no fault of their own - send them an email and tell them what you think! Send me an email and tell me what you think - check out the adverts on this page too - some link to the DRC. They did anyway. If you have a choice between clicking the link I've given and an adsense advert - click the advert! My response to to Welfare Reform Bill? Who do you think you are kidding Mr Hutton? If you think we're on the run? Etc ...

 

Children's rights..

The NSPCC are currently running their FULL STOP campaign to lobby Gordon Brown for funds to extend Child Line. 43% of the children who ring Child Line are unable to get through. All you have to do is sign a postcard and send it to The Rt Hon Gordon Brown MP urging him to fund the service.

Click the green link to join us! If you are still at school and have a problem ring the Child Line number.

Cruelty to children must stop. FULL STOP. NSPCCChildline

I hope you will support all the campaigns above and if you have a rights issue you want me to feature or a link - send me an email. My computer is getting smart - it just suggested changing Rt to Rat. lol I had a Christmas card from my Member of Parliament and this week a email from an author with a couple of books published who campaigns for human rights for children - I'm getting noticed. Infamous at last. I'm still planning a online petition to the Prime Minister with the help of my friends - to complain about discrimination against the chronically sick and disabled - and the Welfare Reform Bill! Still a little research to do and we need ways to publicise it! I haven't heard from the United Nations for a while but I understand new resolutions on discrimination against disabled people will be adopted. The following link will take you to the public whip website - great if you want to whip MPs in to shape instead of the parties! A good idea - it will improve democracy - maybe even lead to democracy?

www.thepublicwhip.org.uk

 

I'm happy to give free links to organisations on this page and would like to thank people who take an interest in Human Rights - we are all human after all (some politicians excepted). Marvellous, I mention the p********** word and adsense put holiday adverts on the page! Finally, Madeleine McCann has a right to be back with her Mum and dad - there is a £2.5 million reward - but regardless of that. Spread the word around the world. Print the poster - try to get her back where she belongs. People have said that if she was a kid off a council estate - no one would bother - probably true - but all children are equal. We don't all have to descent to the same level as politicians and the press.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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