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Petition update, 24 March 2009

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The Convention is the first international treaty in history to create a specific legal framework to protect the human rights of disabled people across the globe and to recognise that disabled and non-disabled people share a common humanity. 20 countries need to ratify the Convention before it becomes legally binding. To date only 17 have done so. The UK is not among them. The UK signed the Convention in March 2007. Since then 2,000 people have signed a petition on this site calling on the Government to ratify it without delay. In response to pressure from campaigners the UK has pledged to ratify the Convention by the end of 2008. However, the Convention Campaign Coalition (CCC) is increasingly concerned that the Government might try to reserve, or opt out of, certain Convention rights.Reserving against certain Convention articles means that some parts of the Convention would not be legally binding in the UK. Human Rights are inalienable and universal. If the UK is truly committed to disabled people’s human rights it cannot pick and choose which Convention rights it is willing to support.

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• Lisa Quinlan-Rahman
• Claire Way
• Zahra Ahmadi
• Steve Reynard
• Christopher Brassington
• Veronica Lee
• Mark Heard
• Louise Richards
• Jake Farrell
• Mike Segar
• Chuck Dreyer
• David Gunner
• Ruth Dant
• Donald Stubbings
• John H. La Riviere
• James Fraser
• Joan Potter
• Gillian Walmsley
• Varsha Shukla
• nicki rose
• IKarin Martinsson
• shaun rackham
• James Heather
• Sharon Gates
• Linda Findlay
• Jeanne Holland
• jennifer osborne
• Matt Hewett
• Kathryn Hartigan
• Richard Knowles
• Sylvia Banks
• amanda anne curtis
• deborah j porter
• Claire Watson-Pill
• Rosemond Ofori-Manteaw
• Sophia Taylor
• J M Albinson
• Jenny Fortnam
• Eileen Brookes
• scott aldridge
• Rachel Holland
• sharon case
• Michael Carnell
• Neil Bradbury
• Michael Sharples
• Sarah Barnes
• julie bradlaugh
• christine martin
• shanela Chaudary
• Abigail Alcantara
• vivien pilling
• Conway Castle-Knight
• Sarah Burden
• Emma McMullan
• Daisy Leverington
• Margaret kelly
• Margaret Morrison
• Malcolm Morrison
• David Anothony Boyle
• Nathan Jenkinson
• Calum McGregor
• tim klabis
• David Nattriss
• Neville Young
• Jacqueline Wood
• Emily Pankhurst
• Mark Lancaster
• Cordelia Dean
• Kirsty Tucker
• Paul Bryant
• gaylia ashby
• Kirsten Gooday
• Fiona Donovan
• Miss Kholwadia
• Andrew M Dace
• zak hussain
• glenn keeley
• Matthew Brown
• Kevin Burge
• Martin Clark
• Adam Harman
• gary anderson
• Amanda Birch
• Barbara Reynolds
• Allan Cooper
• Timothy Stone
• shena cooper
• Kerry McDonald
• Georgina Taylor
• Abigail Laura Whelan
• Sarah Stimson
• Jill Slaughter
• Greg Harrington
• Gillian Danton
• Ozlem Ozcelik-Ari
• Bonbon Jones
• jennifer fox
• C S Danton
• DAVE SHARPE
• A CAMPBELL
• colleen politi
• Louise Dore
• steven keay
• Jethro Bor
• Zoe Archer
• Charlotte Deaves
• Nigel Earle
• Anthony Williams
• susan vermaak
• Louise Povey
• Kenneth Rodman
• Lynda Moad
• Phil Thornton
• Roy McDowell
• Andrew Thompson
• Amanda Rodman
• Lucy Powrie
• Pamela Murphy
• D Lewis
• Tony Newberry
• Andrew Deakin
• Angie Gardiner
• Denise Inger
• Philippa Lenton
• Howard Beck
• Sarah Lee
• Jacky Martel
• Sarah Davies
• Jay Jardine
• Ben Williams
• Kirsty Porter
• Jane Walker
• V Eyre
• janet waddington
• Ruth Walford
• Joan Kinder
• Clair McMullen
• Greg Bailey
• Brenda Weeks
• Natasha Pate
• Geoffrey Cox
• Matthew William Clothier
• Adam Lotun
• Dany Cotton
• laurie anderson
• rachel wandera
• Becky Shand
• Malcolm Belk
• kirstymccuaig
• LAURA CAHILL-RITTER
• viv jagger
• Jennie Tindale
• Melanie Biddle
• Lee Shuck
• Peter Dunsdon
• maxine holmes
• mark Donnellley
• Anna McFadden
• Cristina Lorusso
• Nicola Metcalfe
• Derek S Thorpe
• William Sadler (petitions.number10.gov.uk/NHS-SQUANDER)
• Tom Madders
• Sumbal khan
• David Robinson
• amie-lea sleap
• Alasdair Scott
• Hayley Nash
• umesh patel
• Lisa Thrower
• Anne Morris
• S Chester
• Alex Morris
• Doug Landman
• Kate Francis
• Denize Zozula
• DENIS HAWKINS
• Irene Greenman
• C Sewell
• Margaret Hinshelwood
• Brian Archibald
• Keith Henman
• Aysha Arif
• Ann Smith
• Charlotte Brandon-Jones
• Angela Kilvington
• Michael Somerton
• Christopher Chapman
• Jason Adams
• Jane Monaghan
• Brenda Wallace
• oswald sparkfelt
• Duncan Edge
• Joanna Barrett
• Alan Christopher Smith
• RUPERT EARL
• Ann Cox
• margaret cameron
• Mick Carpenter
• Dennis Green
• alan thomas
• Tom Griffiths
• Janet Mayes
• Richard Dixon
• susan cooper
• Laura Horton
• Sandra Wadkin
• Charlotte Hiles
• Peter Mulligan
• James Chilton
• Kevin Lynch
• Bill Wildish
• Joe (John) Leggett
• Jonathan Price
• Mark Moore
• richard marshall
• Richard Bartholomew
• Jude Letham
• Adrian Woolley
• Diana Lambton Pearce
• linda anderton
• Carole Maria harrison
• Sarah Robson
• julie jones
• Graham Pearson
• James Nicholson
• Le N Ho
• mark mayer
• Brian M Neale
• Helen Nixon
• Mark Liddle
• Richard Field
• M Barnes
• K J Nesbitt
• Angela Dryden
• Frances Bundock
• LINDA A KELLY
• Philip Shaw
• Alec Graves
• June Staniforth
• s baalham
• Vincent Gill
• IAN NISBET
• ALEX NISBET
• Tim Shapley
• M A White
• Peter Alexander Budgen
• Alexis Wright
• pamela stewart
• Peter Keeves
• P Neasham
• John Reed
• TIM SEVERN
• Luke Davies
• Amanda Pryde-Jarman
• janice Berry
• David Owens
• Christine McMillan
• Catherine Taylor
• Iftekhar A. Shaikh
• john and Linda Powell
• Paul Edward Norbury McCraith
• Philip Scott
• Priscilla Booth
• Xavier Scott
• amanda francis
• Elizabeth Scott Andrews
• sara jenney
• emma peart
• Dominic Scott
• Mary Scott
• frances scott
• Catherine Loydall
• Sylvie Cordier
• Sarah Sandon
• Kirsty Tansey
• Colette Slevin
• Brian Henderson
• D Henderson
• Frances Dobson
• G.Westmoreland
• Pete Woods
• Christopher George Blanks
• Rozagy
• Susan Shah
• Maria Edwards
• Helena Scott
• Janice Chandler
• marian ryles
• Shaun McNeil
• Hannah Charteris
• Linda Jessop
• Wendy Armstrong
• Andrew Forrest
• Linda Charteris
• Rebecca Newsome
• Vickie Fyfe
• Eric Day
• Terence Willis
• Allan David Shafar
• Tracy Bracher
• R Owens
• Andrea Challis
• Ian D Barnes
• Vijay Ray-Chaudhuri
• Stephen John Davis
• ann fergusson
• Josephine Neagle
• Dawn Fairman
• Tracy Murphy-Jones
• Samuel Fairman
• Ros Lloyd
• Miwa Presley
• Paul Presley
• Bronwen Bakare
• John Harris
• Victoria Shewell
• Barbara Hepworth-Jones
• TREVOR ADAMSON
• glyn brown
• steve meller
• David Schoon
• Claire Metcalfe
• Nicola Ashworth
• Marwa Nasr
• Philip Udall
• stephen annable
• Allen Bergson
• Ben Simms
• Angie Bostock
• Sarah Cassidy
• Patricia Pagett
• lesley cater
• sarah westcott
• Sally Ann Clifford
• Ginnie Jaques
• Heidi Thomas
• Sandra Corbyn
• Tracey Ibbotson
• B Savage
• Louise Duncan
• Robert F. Willis
• Jane Wickenden
• Mary Purnell
• Tim Shields
• Richard Martin
• Pamela Hutton
• Anna JAmes
• Tiffany Birch
• Judith Hible
• june gould
• Alison Lobb
• Priya
• Ms Nicky Heaver
• Nicola Francis
• Rebecca Angus
• Patricia Hardiman
• V.Oliver
• Sion Brooks
• Samantha Walker
• Linda Bagnall
• Emma Rix
• Tony Elson
• kishwer afzal
• Anne Ward
• Thomas Venner
• Alyson Sefton
• lisa Campbell
• Alison Webb
• John Michael Sewell
• Pam Bennett
• Ruth Kiteley
• Alison Littlewood
• LUCY PARKIN
• Deborah Pinnington
• richard Ayre
• Clare Sainsbury
• Stephanie Baines
• Elwyn P. Hopkins
• Tom Reenan
• Debbie Adams
• Dominic Mealy
• SUSAN MALLETT
• Jordan Powell
• Nicola Morgan
• Jean Conway
• Roger Sibley
• Carina Sewell
• Leah Cross
• Terry Hurst
• Rachel Thomas
• Annette Stocks
• Mary Kidson
• Anil Koshti
• Kirsty Liddiard
• David Lock
• Alex Matthews
• Martin Lewis
• Michael G. Wilkins
• Katherine Hann
• Terri Knight
• LAURA HARTAS
• Alex Hayton
• Liz Tunmer
• Ollie Tunmer
• Colin Dimond
• Michelle Kempson
• Graham Liddiard
• Cicely Taylor
• Jacky Lee
• Nicholas Hirst
• Andrew O'Flynn
• Jean Robertson
• Molly Mockford
• Catherine Bacon
• Edwin L Williams
• Adam Mcnaught
• sedley bryden
• SEBASTIAN J E DE CARSS
• Crissie Laugesen
• Alexandra King
• C Chadburn
• Sharon Page
• Heather Mealing
• B.L Barry
• Jay Francis
• Kathy Green
• Martin Lightfoot
• Rebekah Franklin
• Alan Bell
• Julie Kirk
• Gail Whitmore
• Steve Mulcair
• Matthew Whitney
• Arfan Ghafoor
• Dave Lindsay
• Jeanne Carlin
• Ian Devereux
• Michael John Gillingham
• tina loughton
• Charlotte Day
• Mary Ellen McCARTHY
• Anthony McCarthy
• Tudi Snasdell
• Andrew Tollett
• Heather Naylor
• Anita Fairclough
• Hannah Wilk
• Colin Richards
• Bevan Richardson
• Jamie Tottman
• Judith Marsh
• Tom Tamplin
• Cher Ricard
• James Gunn
• Nicholas Shaw
• Peter Whittingham
• PNA Senior
• Lynn O'Neill
• nick c
• Caron McKenna
• Elaine Carver
• Christina Hodges
• Christine Hamilton
• Matthew Hamilton
• Roberta Farr
• Anne Dickinson
• SANDRA BLAINEY
• Dr Alex Kazamias
• Mark V. Swain
• Hilary Anne Jowett
• papa Samuel
• G Fraser
• Katie Fenwick
• James Smith
• Lorraine Gabbitas
• David Flint
• Darren Agus
• Nicola Johnson
• Matthew Dodds
• John B Kendall
• Gail Pennington
• Debra McEllin
• johanna orrett
• Lisa Williams
• Lauren Moran
• Peter Williams
• Linda Eccles
• Helen Pople
• Jayne Flint
• Beth Wetton
• Rachel Altrock
• David Fairclough
• Bettina Fairclough
• b.rowlands
• Katherine Murphy
• John De Fries
• John Shaw
• Nelson C. Sclater
• debra goodwin

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