Posted: 19.06.2001
Disabled people across the world
are calling for a UN convention on disability to create a worldwide standard
for equality and rights.
The campaign will be launched in
the UK on 21 June at a conference to be attended by MEP Richard Howitt,
president of the European Parliament’s All-Party Disability Group, and
Maria Eagle, the new Minister for Disabled People.
Bill Albert, a member of the British
Council of Disabled People’s International Committee, said: “Disabled people
are routinely the most discriminated against throughout the world.
It’s important to get a body like
the UN to take the issue on board and make it quite clear that this is
something that shouldn’t be happening.”