2024 Disabled Enough magazine OLD - Flipbook - Page 21
What are Rights?
Your rights are a set of government rules that tell you
how everyone is to be treated equally and fairly.
Knowing your rights helps you know if you are being
treated fairly. If you are treated unfairly because of your
disability, this is called discrimination.
Your government is responsible for fulfilling your rights
in all areas of life*: employment, education, using
services, playing sport and joining clubs, housing,
access to public spaces, and using government services.
People with disability (PwD) have the same rights as
non-disabled people, and we have safety provided by
the Disability Discrimination Act (1992). The Disability
Discrimination Act helps protect people with disability
from discrimination, it has rules about the ways others
should behave towards PwD and outlines consequences
if they don’t.
The next pages explain the seven areas
of life that you may have to assert your
rights in.
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