#UNCRPD
LightNews LightNews
c-anemone-d.bsky.social
Its an illegal breach of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) to which the US is a signatory
October 19, 2025 at 4:13 PM
clondoner92.bsky.social
The new 2025–2028 transport strategy sets out six goals, focusing on safety, access, sustainability, and innovation. It aims to deliver a reliable and inclusive system, backed by a clear action plan to guide and monitor progress across Ireland.
www.gov.ie/en/departmen...
Infographic titled “Our Strategic Goals” outlining three of the Department of Transport’s key focus areas for 2025–2028. Each goal is presented in a coloured box with a brief description and a list of strategic objectives. The blue section on the left is "Connectivity", which focuses on enhancing urban and rural transport links, including ports, airports, and cross-border connections. The green section in the centre is "Effective Policy and Regulation", aimed at developing future-proofed, evidence-based policies with objectives such as effective governance, regulation, enforcement, and public engagement. The orange section on the right is "Sustainability: Economy, Environment and Society", which seeks to decarbonise and integrate the transport system through actions like delivering climate commitments, encouraging modal shift, electrifying fleets, and developing alternative fuel infrastructure. Infographic titled “Our Strategic Goals continued”, showing the remaining three strategic goals from the Department of Transport's 2025–2028 strategy. Each goal is displayed in a coloured box with a short description and strategic objectives. The yellow box on the left is “Transport Access”, focusing on making transport accessible to all citizens through fairer fares, improved geographical access, clear communication, and digital-first services. The teal box in the middle is “Safety and Security”, prioritising the safety of all transport users, including road, public transport, aviation, and maritime users, with objectives like emergency management, cybersecurity, and independent investigations. The purple box on the right is “Organisational Excellence and Innovation”, which highlights building a resilient, inclusive, and data-driven organisation through good governance, digital innovation, staff development, and stakeholder engagement. Infographic titled “Transport Access” focusing on the objective “Accessible Transport Provision for All” from the Department of Transport’s strategy. It outlines commitments to make the transport system progressively more accessible for people with disabilities, reduced mobility, and older people, using universal design and a ‘whole journey’ approach. The Department will develop policies considering accessibility from the design to implementation stages. Actions include ensuring accessibility is built into all new infrastructure, implementing the National Human Rights Strategy for Disabled People 2025–2030, and engaging with disability communities in line with the UNCRPD. Success will be measured through integrated accessibility features, retrofitting older infrastructure, achieving equality budgeting targets, increasing inclusive public transport (especially in rural areas), and launching a new Vehicle Adaptation Scheme. A table titled "Transport Access continued" outlines objectives and strategies for improving transport accessibility. The first section focuses on "Geographical Access," emphasizing the need for investment in public transport to enhance access for rural and urban areas, with success measured by increased passenger numbers. The second section, "Fairer Fares," discusses the aim to offer competitive pricing for public transport, with success gauged by the implementation of equitable fare structures. The final section, "Clear Information and Communication by Stakeholders," highlights the importance of transparent communication from the department regarding transport services, aiming to improve stakeholder engagement and measure success through effective outreach and feedback mechanisms.
September 30, 2025 at 4:41 PM
johnpring.bsky.social
UN calls for human rights assessment of government’s benefit cuts bill and mental health reforms
#UNCRPD #CRPD #UniversalCredit #MentalHealthBill
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/un-calls-for...
UN calls for human rights assessment of government’s benefit cuts bill and mental health reforms
Disabled experts from the United Nations have told the UK government to carry out a “comprehensive” assessment of the human rights impact of its universal credit cuts bill, further plans to reform …
www.disabilitynewsservice.com
September 25, 2025 at 5:28 PM
johnpring.bsky.social
UN human rights experts have told the UK government they are “dismayed” at the actions of its ministers and what appear to be “discriminatory and unjustified” reforms to disability benefits.
#UN #UNCRPD #CRPD
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/dismay-at-di...
‘Dismay’ at ‘discriminatory’ actions of DWP ministers, in third letter from UN experts to UK in just two months
UN human rights experts have told the UK government they are “dismayed” at the actions of its ministers and what appear to be “discriminatory and unjustified” reforms to disability benefits. It is …
www.disabilitynewsservice.com
September 13, 2025 at 6:45 AM
roothflud.bsky.social
With protests in the US theres discourse on making activism accessible/ doing activism as disabled people etc. Interestingly tho, Ive yet to see people discuss collective organising amongst disabled people or forming DPOs. Less social model perspectives? That the states haven't ratified the UNCRPD?
April 6, 2025 at 6:20 AM
pranesh-archive.bsky.social
US: Art. 33 of UNCRPD requires signatories to ensure copyright doesn't hamper access by persons w/ disabilities. Many don't comply #sccr22
February 12, 2025 at 6:27 AM
lueck-flender.bsky.social
Art. 19 b of the UNCRPD specifies that instead of living as passive recipients of care in institutions “persons with disabilities have access to a range of in-home, residential and other community support services, including personal assistance”
enil.eu/personal-ass... > x.com/enil_eu
anti #ableism
Personal Assistance as a Break-through innovation in Disability Support - ENIL
Personal Assistance, designed according to the human rights model of disability, empowers disabled people and is the key ingredient of community-based support. To increase ...
enil.eu
January 15, 2025 at 10:07 PM
niamhnih.bsky.social
Here are the bulk of the disability related pledges. I expected more from them given their party leader's role as Minister for Disability.

That being said, the pledges to reviw the Disability Act 2005 and increase PA hours are good (and needed). 6/?
Text: vindicating the rights of people with disabilities We have worked to improve provision for people with disabilities in Ireland by taking responsibility for disability out of the Department of Health and placing it in its own department, ratifying the Optional Protocol to the UNCRPD and implementing the Disability Action Plan. In Government, we will: • Review the Disability Act 2005, with a focus on the assessment of need process to streamline access to health and education supports, and to incorporate disabilities that are not currently recognised such foetal alcohol syndrome and severe ADHD (with comorbidities). • Implement the new National Disability Strategy and ensure through the Cabinet Subcommittee on Children and Disability that all Government departments are fully implementing assigned actions under the mainstreaming approach adopted in the strategy. • Implement a ten-year workforce strategy for disability, indicating the number of health and social care professionals neText: vindicating the rights of people with disabilities We have worked to improve provision for people with disabilities in Ireland by taking responsibility for disability out of the Department of Health and placing it in its own department, ratifying the Optional Protocol to the UNCRPD and implementing the Disability Action Plan. In Government, we will: • Review the Disability Act 2005, with a focus on the assessment of need process to streamline access to health and education supports, and to incorporate disabilities that are not currently recognised such foetal alcohol syndrome and severe ADHD (with comorbidities). • Implement the new National Disability Strategy and ensure through the Cabinet Subcommittee on Children and Disability that all Government departments are fully implementing assigned actions under the mainstreaming approach adopted in the strategy. • Implement a ten-year workforce strategy for disability, indicating the number of health and social care professionals... community-based disability services in line with the Action Plan for Disability Services. • Establish a Disability Information and Support Centre in every Community Health Organisation as a one-stop-shop for people with disabilities and their families seeking to engage with public services. The centre will provide support and information relating to education, healthcare, respite, social protection and therapeutic services. • Review the Long-Term Illness Scheme. • We will put the Autism Innovation Strategy on statutory footing, incorporating recommendations from the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism’s report and the Same Chance report. • Ensure that the HSE, private service providers and the Department of Education collate all relevant data on autism. We will request that the CSO include a question on autism in the next census. • End the situation whereby children with dual diagnoses who experience both mental health issues and have a disability such as autism are denied access to mental health services. Seek to end the practice of under-65s being placed in nursing homes. • Support independence among people with a disability by increasing the number of personal assistant hours by 300,000 per year. • Tackle the persistent levels of poverty experienced by people with disabilities by introducing a Cost of Disability payment of €50 a week. • Complete and evaluate the personalised budgeting pilot and make decisions about further implementation of a personalised budgeting policy. • Introduce a new monthly subsidy for people who are blind or vision impaired to cover taxis and other private travel expenses and expand the current pilot on mobility and orientation in schools across the country. • Support and fund Approved Housing Bodies that provide tailored housing solutions to people with disabilities. • Raise the upper limit on the housing adaptation grant to match construction cost inflation.
November 21, 2024 at 5:41 PM
ainemcarroll.bsky.social
Adults with disabilities are often wrongly placed in nursing homes, violating their rights to dignity and independence. Governments must act now to provide inclusive, community-based living options. #DisabilityRights #HumanRights #UNCRPD
September 15, 2024 at 8:11 AM
lsa.org.uk
Children and Adolescents' Mental Health: Care & Treatment Webinar: Learn from expert @jillstavert.bsky.social on this critical topic - BOOK NOW 👉 bit.ly/4kEuaXb #LSAwebinar #childrensmentalhealth #mentalhealth #careandtreatment #ECHR #UNCRC #UNCRPD #capacity #humanrights #cpd #tcpd
April 24, 2025 at 3:22 PM
disrightsuk.bsky.social
🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨

DDPOs Plan UN Complaint Against Assisted Dying Bill

Declaring the Assisted Dying Bill violates the UN Convention on the Rights of Disabled People (UNCRPD), DDPOs are supporting 2 claimants who's lives will be affected if it becomes law

www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/ddpos-p...
DDPOs Plan UN Complaint Against Assisted Dying Bill
www.disabilityrightsuk.org
May 14, 2025 at 3:12 PM
dannydonnelly1.bsky.social
The consultation on my proposed Private Members Bill ensuring public authorities in NI have due regard to the principles of the UNCRPD is open until the 11th March. You can access the consultation here - www.allianceparty.org/disability_r...
United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (Obligation on Public Authorities) Bill
United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (Obligation on Public Authorities) Bill
www.allianceparty.org
February 19, 2025 at 6:29 AM
And I want to talk about the UNCRPD report which found the UK the first (and so far only) country to gravely and systematically breach the rights of disabled people.

Because she is deliberately continuing the practices that resulted in that national shame you've all memory-holed
January 25, 2025 at 11:15 AM
richcann.bsky.social
🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨

The UK Government is refusing to attend a meeting at the UN to review its treatment of Disabled people under the UNCRPD. It has told the UN Committee that it does not want to undergo public scrutiny on its progress at the meeting.

#DisabledNotDisposable
August 29, 2023 at 9:30 AM
meshedlight.bsky.social
I finished reading "Becoming a person: the biography of Robert Martin" by @johnmcrae.bsky.social last weekend

Thoroughly recommend

It gives outline of what state care was like

and context for how UNCRPD came to be - I cannot stress enough how important Sir Robert's advocacy was

📚🇳🇿
October 4, 2024 at 4:45 AM
therightarticle.bsky.social
“The Tory government is being hauled to the UN over human rights violations here in the UK” https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2024/03/07/uncrpd-march-meeting-uk-government/
March 7, 2024 at 12:49 PM
fionaswriting.bsky.social
It would help if I added the link 😂

https://inclusionscotland.org/get-informed/uncrpd-report
United Nations Convention on the Rights of Disabled Peopl...
Why is the CRPD is important to disabled people?- Video T...
inclusionscotland.org
November 19, 2024 at 1:15 PM
freelancewebdev.bsky.social
Hey true progressives, while I can get your collective attention under the #StandTogether and #irelandforall tags, count my boots and check out my virtual tee-shirts.

#disabilityrights #VoteYesNo #uncrpd
All mná matter No tá without all mná
March 2, 2024 at 3:53 PM
equalitycommni.bsky.social
Our Chief Commissioner met today with Danny Donnelly MLA to discuss his proposals for a Bill on the UNCRPD. We also highlighted the need to strengthen protections against disability discrimination in Northern Ireland.

@dannydonnelly1.bsky.social‬
Three people standing on the staircase at Stormont Buildings: Paul Noonan, Senior Policy Officer; Geraldine McGahey, Chief Commissioner of the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland; and Danny Donnelly, MLA, standing in the middle.
July 30, 2025 at 2:08 PM
fionaswriting.bsky.social
I hope that the EU are watching very closely the UK's complete failure to honour international treaties (UNCRPD) and to abide by international law (Chagos).

I know they already know this, but the UK government has no honour, and plenty of form for ignoring their obligations.
November 25, 2024 at 7:00 PM
huhana.bsky.social
Oh and it's also a breach of the UNCRPD and te Tiriti o Waitangi
March 25, 2024 at 4:20 AM
djno.ca
Since today is Land Day, we need to talk about how the UNCRPD addressed the international submission on Canada's Arms Sales to Israel. DJNO supported the submission that prompted these comments because we believe in international justice and solidarity. Thread: 1/5 #disabilityjustice
Alt Text: Too long for again, but check our link in bio for alt text or follow this link: https://textdoc.co/aNrcBCipZ56E4Guj
March 30, 2025 at 11:25 PM
dpnewshubie.bsky.social
Did you know? 🔎

Let's take a closer look at the structure and content of the UNCRPD!

#Participation #DisabilityRights #DisabilityAdvocacy #HumanRights
ID: A blue background with white and pink rectangles, a large green question mark and megaphone. Text reads: Did you know? The UNCRPD has a Preamble and 50 Articles. The Optional Protocol to the UNCRPD includes a complaints process for breaches of rights. General Comments, like General Comment 7 on Articles 4(3) and 33(3), help explain the intentions behind the articles, especially about the role of DPOs/DPROs in consultation and monitoring.
July 22, 2025 at 2:33 PM
byteseu.bsky.social
‘No More Segregation’: MFOPD calls out authorities over LifeMap programme

https://www.byteseu.com/1340786/

Malta has ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD), making it part of Maltese law, yet decisions affecting persons with disabilities continue to …
‘No More Segregation’: MFOPD calls out authorities over LifeMap programme - Bytes Europe
Malta has ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD), making it part of Maltese law, yet decisions affecting persons with
www.byteseu.com
September 2, 2025 at 6:26 AM