PRESIDENTIAL: APF France Handicap challenges the candidates in Dijon on March 9
The association calls for a rally in front of the prefecture, “for a real price taking into account the disability” as part of its #23MillionsDeVoix campaign.
Press release from APF France Handicap:
A few weeks before the presidential election, we are mobilizing to challenge candidates and candidates as part of our campaign.
#23MillionVoices
This campaign is based on a digital device that gives voice to the people concerned.
Moreover, to make our voices heard, we must be visible in the street! This is why we launched a call for mobilization on March 9 everywhere in France, to denounce those known to exercise our fundamental rights of which we are still too often victims on a daily basis.
We are all shocked by the war in Ukraine and the terrifying images we receive.
We pay particular attention to people with disabilities and their families who live in Ukraine or who have decided to leave their country.
In this context, all other news takes a back seat, including the presidential election.
After consultation, and despite this context, we have decided to maintain our mobilization day on March 9 by launching our #23MillionsDeVoix campaign on the same day by addressing candidates and candidates directly.
Whether in times of peace, of war, but also of any crisis (health, climate, etc.), people with disabilities and their families often suffer from the aggravated consequences of these situations, or are even forgotten.
March 9 is a day to express our exasperation!
“For a real consideration of the handicap”.
We will be in Dijon on March 9, 2022, in front of the prefecture from 12 p.m. to 3 p.m. to say “enough! “.
The full message from APF Handicap on March 9:
Dear friends,
We are gathered today to make our voices heard under the banner #23MillionsDeVoix, we, the 12 million people with disabilities and 11 million caregivers in France.
We have come together to say STOP to the continual appeals to our rights and to remind the candidates for the presidential election that we are full citizens: they cannot ignore our concerns when we represent a third of the French population.
However, we do not forget the tragedy that has struck Ukraine.
We are all shocked by this terrifying event and its dramatic consequences for the tens of millions of people who are directly confronted with it. Today we want to express our solidarity.
Strengthened by our humanist and social values, we must act in favor of all those who are victims of this tragedy, while continuing our fights.
Faced with the intolerable price paid by civilian populations, it is our duty to recall the need and urgency to guarantee the safety of all and the evacuation of the wounded and to be concerned about the most vulnerable people among those designated with disabilities and their families living in Ukraine.
We must care about those who have decided to leave their country and their reception conditions as well as those who have decided or have no choice but to stay at home.
Human rights and solidarity are at the heart of our European project. In line with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, we have therefore alerted the President of the Republic, currently President of the European Union.
Because, we know only too well, in times of war or other climatic or health crises like the one we have been experiencing for 2 years, people with disabilities and their families too often suffer aggravated consequences, or are even totally forgotten.
As an association that acts on a daily basis to defend the rights of people with disabilities and their families,
as an association that defends a more just, peaceful and sustainable society based on the effectiveness and respect of human rights,
APF France handicap is and will always be in solidarity with all people affected in their chair and in their rights, in France, in Ukraine, in the world.
As Antonio Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations so rightly said, “Human rights cannot be confiscated by dictatorship or abolished by poverty. They are essential. They are powerful. »
Along the same lines, we affirm:
Living together in peace, dialogue and the respect due to each and everyone is a pillar of the cohesion of Nations and is non-negotiable.
Our fights and the social project that we want and that we support have no borders!
Together, for the respect and effectiveness of rights, nothing will stop us.