Today it is 71 years ago that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was proclaimed by the UN General Assembly in Paris. More than twice as old as the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and containing only 30 articles, but when you read them, it is incredibly comprehensive. And yet, at such a venerable age, it is heartbreaking to realise how far we are – in any country at all – from actually truly honouring all the rights listed in that declaration.
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International Day of Persons with Disabilities
In last year’s blog to mark the International Day of Persons with Disabilities (which you can find HERE), I explained how children with disabilities are more likely to end up in institutions and less likely to get out of them, even when a transformation of care process has been set in motion. This year, I would like to shine a light on how children with disabilities are more often than not excluded from any decisions made about them, even more so than children in institutions are in general.
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