Have Your Say About HIV Abuse, Threats, Bullying Harassment
posted: 06/07/2010
Have you faced HIV abuse, bullying, graffiti, threats, or violence? If anything like this has happened to you in the last 5 years, we want to know about it. An official Inquiry is underway because public bodies are not doing their legal duty to prevent and end HIV and disability harassment.
Public duty to prevent and end harassment
Public bodies like councils, the health service, public transport and others all have a legal duty to prevent and eliminate disability harassment.
Time to tell your stories of HIV hate and bullying
You can tell your story of what happened anonymously, or give your name.
Whatever happened, no matter how big or small, and whether you told anyone, whether you complained or not, is all valuable evidence.
Partners, relatives, friends, organisations can all help too with their own evidence.
How to help
The deadline for your comments is Friday 10th September 2010.
You can respond through any of the following methods:
Disability Harassment Inquiry
Equality and Human Rights Commission
FREEPOST RRLL-GHUX-CTRX
Arndale House, Arndale Centre
Manchester, M4 3AQ
Organisations and Public Bodies have a different questionnaire - an interactive pdf and Word versions of the Call for Evidence are available here
The Inquiry also welcomes information and ideas about what helps
- How public bodies and public transport deal with HIV / disability harassment
- What helps prevent and eliminate HIV / disability harassment
- How to deal with the causes of HIV / disability harassment, including prejudice and blame
- Ways of involving people with HIV in ending HIV / disability harassment and its causes
- How people with HIV can be encouraged to report HIV / disability harassment
- How age, gender, gender identity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief and sexual orientation affect HIV / disability harassment.
Equality And Human Rights Commission Disability Harassment Inquiry call for evidence
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Disabled People Bullied at Work
posted: 28/11/2008
Disabled people are much more likely than the able-bodied to be hit, injured, bullied and humiliated at work, groundbreaking research for the Equality and Human Rights Commission will reveal today. People diagnosed with HIV are automatically treated as "disabled" with rights under Disability Discrimination law.
In the first comprehensive survey of discrimination in the workplace, the commission found 11.6% of employees with a disability or long-term illness, such as HIV, experienced physical violence at work, compared with 5.5% of other employees.
It said 8.8% of disabled people sustained an injury as a result of violence or aggression at work, compared with 4.7% of able-bodied people.
workplace discrimination is widespread
The survey of 4,000 employees raised doubts about whether the government can achieve the goal of getting more disabled people into employment without tackling the discrimination they encounter in the workplace. It found 25% of people with a disability or long-term illness said someone was continually checking up on their work, compared with 19.4% of other workers. One in five disabled people said they were pressurised to work below their level of competence, compared with 13.5% of other workers.
People with a disability were almost twice as likely to believe that their performance at work was unfairly criticised (22.5%) or that they had been humiliated or ridiculed (13.4%.)
Half the complaints are about employers, line managers and supervisors
Employers, line managers and supervisors were responsible for nearly half the ill-treatment. Employees with learning disabilities or psychological problems are more likely to be abused than people with visual or hearing impairment.
The commission said: "Negative treatment at work may frustrate government policy by deterring people with disabilities or long-term illnesses from accessing or remaining in employment."
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