Ontario Urged to Suspend Need for Consent Before Withdrawing Life Support When COVID Crushes Hospitals – Accessibility News, your Online Magazine Devoted to Disability Accessibility.

January 22, 2021 / by BBG Security / All, aoda.

Canada’s Supreme Court ruled in 2013 that a major Toronto Hospital could not withdraw life-support from a minimally conscious and severely brain-damaged man without his family’s consent. Read more athttps://aoda.ca/ontario-urged-to-suspend-need-for-consent-before-withdrawing-life-support-when-covid-crushes-hospitals/ Related

United Nations Urged to Lead Action to End Discrimination Against People With Disabilities in the Response to COVID-19 – Accessibility News International

May 20, 2020 / by BBG Security / Community

By IDAMay 18, 2020 New campaign by disability rights groups calls for more leadership from the United Nations to ensure COVID-19 measures include people with disabilities. Lack of concerted action from governments and health authorities is putting the lives of people with disabilities at greater risk during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the International Disability […]

United Nations Urged to Lead Action to End Discrimination Against People With Disabilities in the Response to COVID-19 – Accessibility News, your Online Magazine Devoted to Disability Accessibility.

May 20, 2020 / by BBG Security / All, International

Lack of concerted action from governments and health authorities is putting the lives of people with disabilities at greater risk during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the International Disability Alliance (IDA) and International Disability and Development Consortium (IDDC). Read more athttp://www.accessibilitynewsinternational.com/united-nations-urged-to-lead-action-to-end-discrimination-against-people-with-disabilities-in-the-response-to-covid-19/ Related

City Urged to Think About People With Disabilities in CurbTO Plan to Create Space on Sidewalks – Accessibility News, your Online Magazine Devoted to Disability Accessibility.

May 4, 2020 / by BBG Security / All, aoda.

David Lepofsky, a disability rights advocate, says: ‘The real question that I would ask is: What are they doing to ensure that, in altering this part of the built environment, that the alteration will increase and not decrease accessibility?’ Read more athttps://aoda.ca/city-urged-to-think-about-people-with-disabilities-in-curbto-plan-to-create-space-on-sidewalks/ Related