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Why do we need a Disabled Students campaign?
1. In further education, at least 6% of students declare a disability on enrolment.
2. In higher education, at least 4% of students declare a disability on enrolment.
3. In 1994, China introduced a law designed to eliminate ‘inferior births’ and heighten the standards of the whole population through enforced sterilization of disabled people and compulsory abortion of disabled foetuses.
4. Only 1 in 20 disabled people are in FE of HE, compared to 1 in 10 for the rest of the population.
5. 1 in 5 disabled people in FE and HE feel that they are directly discriminated against because of their disability.
6. One third of disabled people do not feel they can enter education because of their disability.
7. 27% of disabled people have no qualifications at all compared to 12% of the rest of the population.
8. There are 7 million disabled people in Britain.
9. Only about half of disabled people in Britain work, compared to 80% of the rest of the population.
10. Only 1 in 5 people with mental health problems work in Britain.
11. Disabled employees are paid an average of £1.50 less per hour than their non-disabled counterparts.
12. Disabled students are 10 times more likely to be the victim of bullying than their non-disabled counterparts.
13. Disabled people are 10 times more likely to be victims of sexual abuse.
14. 85% of disable people surveyed in Britain feel they are treated as second class citizens.
15. 1 in 3 families with Black disabled children have severe problems with their housing, compared to 1 in 5 families with white disabled children.
16. Disabled women are 3 times less likely to work than disabled men.
17. Dyslexic students make up 43% of the disabled students in Britain.
18. HIV is defined as a disability under the Disability Discrimination Act 1995.
19. In 2005, 2.4 million adults and children in sub-Saharan Africa died of HIV. Over 2 million of these deaths were preventable through ant-retroviral drugs and the widespread condom availability.
20. In 1997, less than half of polling booths in Britain were accessible, meaning that many disabled people were simply unable to vote.
21. Even though it’s against the law, lots of colleges, Universities and Students’ Unions are not fully accessible to disabled people.
22. Disabled people are denied adequate sex education-disability and sex remain a taboo and are not talked about.
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