Disability Rights in UK: Analysis of Societal Opinion and Relevant Legislations

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Contents
INTRODUCTION.....................................................................................................................................4
MAIN BODY............................................................................................................................................4
TASK ......................................................................................................................................................4
Analysis in societal opinion ...............................................................................................................4
Legislations and case laws.................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES..........................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
The UK common law is based on the principle of equity that provide fair and just
treatment to all its citizens. Person with diability soffers lot of discrimination at workplace,
or in a society. The issue of diability is very complex and creates barriers for the people whoi
are suffring from any kind of vulnerability as a result of which they find many hindrances in
active articipation in a society. There are vulnerble group of persons that are born or may be
suffered from some disabilities after birth. They are not only discimrinated on the basis of
their physical appearnace, race, sex orientation but also even disallowed them from the use of
public areas (Pyaneandee, 2018). The disability on the basis of sexual orientation has been
suffered by LGBTQ and considered as third gender and faced many discrimination in the
societies. According to the UN declaration fo Human rights provides the general principles to
the LGBTQ to secure their egal and inherent rights. The International Convention on Rights
of Person with Disability Article 1, recognises the physcial, sexual and mental diability of a
person and established the social model for them to understand the serious issues of disability
(Broderick and Ferri, 2019). This report will cover the seriouys issue of disability rights in
UK and its relevant provisons in relation to UK.
MAIN BODY
TASK
Analysis in societal opinion
On the issue of disability rights, using the disability new service report of 24th March,
2022 titled UN hear how disabled people feel 'expendable' after rights regression since 2017
by John Pring (https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/un-to-hear-how-disabled-people-feel-
expendable-after-rights-regression-since-2017/) , highlights the UK government response
towards the disabled people as they were continously ignored by the society and their life has
given less value as compared to others. Accordig to the Equality Act of 2010 of UK rpvides
the right to equality, maintains the integirty and dignity of an individual who are physically
diabled and incapable. This legislation is considered as the primary source that governs the
right of the disabled people and allows them to access all the ebenfits of housing, hospital,
transport, education etc (Kanter, 2006). The UK government has recently rectified the UN
Convention on the rights of People with disabilities to provide them funding and financial
assistance.