A group of Australians with disabilities have travelled to Geneva to tell a UN committee about their experiences of discrimination and call on the government for more support for the community.
“We should be experiencing more choice, more freedom, more control over our lives and that isn’t happening at the moment,” one of the delegates, Kelly Cox, told SBS News from Geneva.
“We’ve got significant issues with the NDIS, but we’ve also got significant issues outside the NDIS; in the schooling system, the health system, the justice system. There are all these other areas that people with disabilities do need support in and rights, and we’re just not getting them at the moment.”
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- Human Rights
- Source:
- SBS
- Date published:
- Thu 12th Sep, 2019