People with disabilities beaten, sexually assaulted and sedated under ‘epidemic proportions’ of violence and abuse

Violence, abuse, and neglect of Australia’s disabled people is at an epidemic level, national rights and advocacy organisation People with Disability Australia has said in a detailed submission to the New South Wales parliamentary inquiry into elder abuse.

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Topics:
Discrimination, Housing, Human Rights

Source:
Huff Post australia

Date published:
Fri 18th Mar, 2016