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Don’t let the government paint itself as a champion of disabled rights – it’s anything but

Disabled People Against Cuts — one of the founder members of Reclaiming Our Futures Alliance — is organising to highlight the utter and total hypocricy of ex-Tory minister for disabled people and now International Development Minister Penny Mordaunt hosting a global disability summit in London this week.

This summit is co-hosted by the British government and Kenya. 

DPAC is strongly in favour of international support that improves the lives of deaf and disabled people across the world and welcomes co-operation between states that lead to stronger human rights laws and protections. 

  • Challenge these disabledist policies and practices that disproportionately and negatively affect deaf and disabled people and that dehumanise and erase our different human identities
  • Stand in solidarity with deaf and disabled people in Britain who are on the receiving end of the grave and systematic violations of our rights and promote stronger rights and protections for deaf and disabled people globally
  • Celebrate and build international links of solidarity between our struggles — we are demanding British DDPOs and DDPOs from the South receive support from DfID to collaborate to create disability equality, justice and human rights globally. 
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