‘WeThe15’ global human rights movement launched for persons with disabilities

WeThe15 is a new global human rights movement looking to end discrimination for the world’s 1.2 billion persons with disabilities. The name comes from the fact that there are 15% of the global population identified as disabled. The campaign is launching at the Tokyo Paralympic games and plans to initiate change and remove inequality.

The campaign, sport’s biggest ever human rights movement, is spearheaded by the International Paralympic Committee and International Disability Alliance and is working with Loughborough University to research the effectiveness of the campaign across four global territories, with the UK being one of them.

There is information on how to get involved, including spreading the message on social media and highlighting the injustice people with disabilities currently face including:

• Less than 15% of the 70 million people who need a wheelchair have access to one
• Girls and women with disabilities may face up to ten times more violence than other women and young girls
• One third of out-of-school children are children with disabilities