People with Disability Australia Incorporated

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Systemic Advocacy

PWD advocates for the reform of systemic issues which have a negative impact on people with disability.

PWD seeks to achieve positive change in the structures, policies and practices that exclude people with disability and puts people with disability at risk of abuse and neglect in order to promote social justice for people with disability.

Area covered
  • NSW, Australia and Internationally
Focus
  • Provides long-term systemic advocacy in project areas such as: women and disability, children and disability, personal care, housing, the Aboriginal community and disability, Pacific nations and disability and government awareness of disability issues
Examples
  • "What is PWD doing about voting accessibility?"
  • "What is PWD's position on the sterilisation of children and adults with disability?"
  • Work with the United Nations on the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disability
  • Issues of deinstitutionalisation and abuse and neglect
  • Ongoing work around universal housing design
Some key areas include
  • ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disability (CRPD);
  • sterilisation of children and adults with disability;
  • abuse and neglect;
  • deinstitutionalisation;
  • universal housing design; and
  • voting accessibility
Further reading

 

Recent PWD Publications

PWD Media Releases

PWD E-bulletin #62, June 2010