Kampanya güncellemesiCALL FOR CHANGE for ME patients AustraliaWhy is "Violence" in our title?
Andrew BrethertonMelbourne, Avustralya
12 Kas 2021

So I've had a couple of enquires on why we use the terms "Violence", "Neglect", "Abuse" and "Exploitation" in our call for change title, and there is a specific reason for this.
It's because these are the key terms set out by the disability royal commission for their lines of enquiry found here: https://disability.royalcommission.gov.au/about-royal-commission/key-terms
Some enquiries were mainly concerned by the use of "Violence" in our title but "Violence" as defined by the royal commission includes a list of behaviours and actions that include:

Assault,
Sexual Assault,
Constraints, (Physical and Mental)
Restrictive Practices (Physical / Chemical)
Violations of Privacy & Dignity
Humiliation and Harassment
Financial and Economic Abuse (i.e. this can include denial of benefits/supports based on diagnosis discrimination,
"programs/clinics" promoting "cures" or "recovery" for ongoing payments or
scams that ignore informed consent and withhold full treatment information behind a paywall or pay as you go system)

 
Forced Treatments or Forced Interventions
(This is especially relevant to our community i.e. with the forced mandatory requirements of the Australian government to have ME patients engage in harmful and abusive therapies like GET/CBT that make them further disabled just to access services such as DSP and NDIS ect)

and this can also include acts of violence by ANY person committed on a person with ME or that PWME have experienced due to their disability 
 
Hopefully that clears everything up!


All the best


Andrew.

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