Mobility, education, housing and active inclusion in public life are key areas where Europeans living with disabilities would benefit from reform, say MEPs. The EU should have a common definition of disability and introduce a European Disability Card to mutually recognise disability status across the EU, argue MEPs in a resolution approved with 579 votes […]
The International Olympic Committee has been criticised by rights
groups for failing to condemn China’s alleged human rights
violations, including against the Uyghur population.
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On the advice of the International Olympic Committee s (IOC) Athletes Commission, the IOC Executive Board last week resolved to continue to censor athletes who participate in peaceful protest at the Olympic Games, especially in the most powerful spaces of the podium and the arena. Patronisingly, the censorship is now coupled with scripting, with the IOC endorsing the use of the words, peace, respect, solidarity, inclusion and equality.
In the words of Bernice King, chief executive of the Martin Luther King Center for Nonviolent Social Change, Inclusion does not = equity. Diversity does not = justice. Tolerance does not = love. Silence does not = peace.