UN guide to promote best practice on disability employment?

21st July 2010

A new guide has been introduced by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) with a view to promoting best practice on disability employment.

The UN Convention on the Rights of Disabled Persons has been brought in to help improve services in the employment, education, health and access to justice sectors, among others.

Mike Smith, chair of the commission's disability committee, said: "[The convention] requires government to take action to remove barriers and give disabled people real freedom, dignity and equality."

He added that the ERHC will continue to put pressure on the current administration to enforce the guidelines outlined in the paper.

The government must report on which parts of the convention it agrees to and organisations can also contact the UN with regards to how they can put the rights into practice.

Meanwhile, Diane Mulligan has been nominated as the UK candidate for the UN expert committee on the rights of disabled people.

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