Kate Swaffer she/her ❤️🖤💛
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PhD Candidate, UniSA. Civil Rights Campaigner. Optimist. Retweets are not endorsements. #IVotedYES 💚 #KaurnaCountry
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Years of our work has come together into a unique curation of disability resources from 145+ countries, with a specialised guide on climate change. Climate work by Áine (they/them) & support from Sightsavers Policy and Research Center for Inclusive Policy Ford Foundation CBM Global Disability Inclusion disabilitydebrief.org/growing-librar…
Older persons are routinely denied their right to legal capacity. Their autonomy, will and preferences must be respected, says Claudia Mahler - UN Independent Expert in the interactive dialogue now underway at #HRC57. We need a new UN convention to fully protect our rights in older age #AgeWithRights
Prof Kathy Eagar It is worse than that. The DisabilityRC was used to have the public advocates shape supported decision making and Guardianship reform, under the guise of letting oldies speak for themselves, BUT it is really about ACFs& public trustees coercive control 1/
Mimama 🐕🐝🦋🦉🖤💛❤️ Paul Greenwood Deanne OWN NSW Anika Wells MP Pat Conroy MP Anne Ruston Kate Swaffer she/her ❤️🖤💛 Such an important point, Mimama 🐕🐝🦋🦉🖤💛❤️ The Aged Care RC really failed to engage with the justice system and this speaks to a foundational failure to see people living with dementia and older people as full citizens and subjects of human rights and legal rights.
Kate Swaffer she/her ❤️🖤💛 Theresa Flavin shibley Grateful to work with you Kate Swaffer she/her ❤️🖤💛 Still so much more research and advocacy to do
‘It’s the only disease [I know of] where you’re not supported to fight for your life’: why I’m still demanding dementia rights | The Guardian great to see our work mentioned Linda Steele Dementia Alliance International theguardian.com/australia-news…
Join us to find out what's working to end homelessness of older women & violence against older women! Thrilled that Dr Catherine Barrett will be our keynote speaker. Book here: bit.ly/OWNconf Please retweet! @janecaro Dr Stephanie Dowrick Joins calls for PEACE Lynie Australian Services Union DomesticViolenceNSW
I'll be speaking on media coverage of involuntary commitment at the The Alliance for Rights and Recovery (NYAPRS) conference in Callicoon, New York, Sept 25-27. rightsandrecovery.org/e-news-bulleti…