Awareness-raising video about European Blind Union (EBU)’s requirements for Right to Personal Mobility, according to UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) Article 20 and Sustainable Development Goal 11.2.
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The right to personal mobility
THIS IS A MESSAGE FOR ALL POLITICIANS, PUBLIC TRANSPORT DECISION MAKERS AND JOURNALISTS:
Most people get into their car when they want to go somewhere. For blind and partially sighted persons, this is not possible. We have to plan our travel and assistance up to 48 hours upfront. Imagine if you had to wait for 24 hours before getting into your car.
The human right to personal mobility is covered in sustainable development goal 11.2 and article 20 in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
According to this convention we should be able to plan, book, pay and monitor our travel ourselves. Unfortunately it is still a challenge to buy a ticket and to know when your train is delayed when you are visually impaired.
We need you to take action now!
Make sure we can find our way at the station, on the platform and when changing from train to bus. Please turn ON sound in train stations and in buses to inform us about when we are leaving, what the next stop is and to what destination we are heading.
Make assistance available everywhere, at no cost and at the time of our choice, not after 24 hours!
Please share this video and make all public transport accessible for blind
and partially sighted persons.
Contact EBU the voice of blind and partially sighted people in Europe. For more information euroblind.org.
This video has been supported by the Rights, Equality and Citizenship Programme of the European Union.
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