Hello Welcolme to IDC Blog. Signed Islington Deaf
Campaign.
We are very pleased to tell you -about the time!
The Government been attending to New York today
to ratified International Treaty: UN Convention on
Right of People with Disabilities ALSO Deaf!
Fanstanic!
IDC on history that Betty (Chairperson), myself
and IDC been lots of meetings for human rights
campaign for make sure our rights are match
to equality.
We first become very interested in this Treaty
in 2006. We asked details about International
Treaty wow very important to us. We want
these rights! IDC been asking for our Islington MP
Jeremy Corbyn MP to sign with International Treaty
and he did asked the Parliament with questions
and got the answers.
The Government says they will sign the Treaty,
then finally they did in March 2007. We
realise that it is only signed which means only
support these principles from the Govenment.
Not enough. Only signed. There is no law
changing at all. We IDC kept going and
campaign these to the Government.
Today the Government officially ratified
which means our rights we can use now -
high standard. We can tell the Government
to comply with the Treaty. If the government
ignore, we can use this treaty to show them!
What rights will we have? (Briefly)
1. Right to expression, your views and opinions
in Sign Language. Access to Information in
BSL. Right to your linquistic identity of Deaf
Community. It is YOURS identity that proud!
2. Access to BSL Teachers, Interpreters
3. MOST IMPORTANT - Deaf Children - access to
billigualism - first language BSL and English.
If you want more information, you can read the
Convention, or you can contact IDC.
This means IDC been successful campaign
on this issue. But we have more action to
make this happen.
Please you deaf people support IDC -
need to work together, share information,
respect each other.
How to contact IDC? - details on IDC Blog.
Thank you for watching. Bye.
connect to the UK Government Ratification url for evidence:
8 comments:
Is there a link to the treaty wording ?
Yes
http://www.un.org/disabilities/default.asp?id=259
A cursory look, it does not appear to be that much different from the DDA here. I rather fear that "Reasonable Adjustment' is not good enough, because they can still exploit that as they do now.
It is long on rhetoric, short on decisive legislation. Discrimination should be made ILLEGAL, non-ACCESS ILLEGAL, full stop, I didn't read that. The european directive to recognise BSL did NOT get it in education still.
Does it mean a deaf prson from the UK can go to America and demand sign access ? I think not...
All these things I campaigned for long ago pre 1995 when we lobbied for the DDA itself (I was the sole deaf person when it was launched to attend !), was it not the RNID who then reneged on that insistnce in law, to take 'reasonable' out of the wording ? and this resulted in the DDA being not what we wanted, which then forced deaf to go to Human Rights instead ?
we canot force deaf access HERE,bu going to Europe or the UN, these are statements of possible or preferable intent, they are not laws.
Thank you for your comments, have very valid points there.
International Treaty is more powerful than European Directives, or other legal instruments.
You can use these rights in UK rather going to America or whatever.
The reason the Government went to New York because UN Headquarters was in there - just ratifying ... which means now
UK will proceed laws to make sure it will happen here.
I noticed in Convention they use Reasonable Accommodation rather than Reasonable adjustments. There is definition of these words in the Convention.
This International Treaty means more than any European Directive.
It may not mean much in the UK because the articles it enforces are much the same as Equality laws in this country already.
However, it can only be a good thing for the millions of people in countries which previous to this had no provision for equal access
Thank you.
That is not true - Treaty have the exactly words which we can ask the Government to change the wording to meet the Treaty - this is much more because the words including promote BSL - there is no laws in UK to specifically to state this. This is one of the examples we can challenge the Government to change the law.
We will raise about Equality laws very shortly.
I think the issue with these treaties is with due respect John, you see them ONLY In the light of deaf people, or perhaps sign language recognition and access, in fact they are general directives and edicts for all DISABLED people.
I rather suspect to get any meat on the bones of these things, we will again HAVE to set precedent as we do with all 'disability' laws, because they are not by their nature deaf specific.
In so doing we are then reverting to what was before. The DDA already does contain much of what we want, but no teeth to bite with, so does not deliver, I explained why, we should have lobbied for that to be sorted out, instead I see deaf campaigners going to Europe, to the UN, everywhere but here, where the problems ARE. We need the DDA stripped down again and sorted as we wanted in 1995, before the RNID cut the feet from under deaf people, and because the BDA did not deem a 'disability' law of use to deaf people.
We get oppopsition because one thing Britsh do tend to be united about, is they DON'T like being told what to do by other countries ! A lot here would oppose on that principle, Europe is positively hated here in the UK via their conveyor-belt issuing of laws.
The UN also does NOT have any clout any more, unless the major powers back it, it will take 25 years or more to happen.
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