Norfolk Parliamentary Candidates Debate Equality Issues With Local Disabled People

April 28, 2010 - PRLog -- As part of their election campaign, the Norfolk Coalition of Disabled People (NCODP) has focussed on bringing together local disabled people and their families with the prospective parliamentary candidates of the main parties in each constituency.

The Norwich meeting is one of six meetings across Norfolk which have been arranged to give disabled people and their families the opportunity to ask the candidates where they and their party stand on key equality issues and precisely what they are going to do about them.

The meeting is informal; anyone attending is free to raise anything they feel is important.

29th April, 1:30pm   Norwich, The Forum, 2 Millennium Plain, Bethel Street, Norwich NR2 1TF

In addition to the meetings held throughout the election campaign, the Norfolk Coalition of Disabled People (NCODP) launched their own manifesto in May, which they want all candidates and their parties to commit to.
The manifesto is based on the issues NCODP’s members have expressed as important to them and is linked to the UN Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities.

There are more than 180,000 disabled people in Norfolk. They and their families represent a very large and important group of voters.

For more information regarding this meeting, including a full list of the candidates attending, and to view the NCODP’s manifesto please visit http://www.ncodp.org.uk/manifesto2010 or call Peter de Oude on 01508 491211

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The Norfolk Coalition of Disabled People (NCODP) is a human-rights group controlled by disabled people and their organisations. They organise and take part in campaigns and run services that promote social equality and dignity for all disabled people.

The NCODP regards having an impairment as a normal part of being human. Disability results from people with impairments being excluded by physical and social barriers and negative attitudes. Their main task is to challenge the many forms of discrimination created by these barriers and attitudes.

The NCODP believes that disabled people must take the leading role in decisions that affect their lives both locally and as part of the national and international disability movements in which the NCODP plays an active part. There must be “Nothing about us without us.”