DISABLED people’s organisations have called on the United Nations to declare that the passage of the assisted dying legislation breaches international human rights obligations under the UN Convention on Disabled Rights (UNCRPD)

Groups including Disabled People Against Cuts, Disability Rights UK and Not Dead Yet UK are supporting a complaint by two disabled individuals who argue that key elements of how the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill is progressing through Parliament violate the rights of deaf and disabled people.

The complaint focuses on the barriers faced by deaf and disabled people and their organisations in engaging with the legislation, which they say has excluded those most affected.