Re: Disability statistics

At 10:12 PM -0800 12/16/01, Ineke van der Maat wrote:
>When I exclude one group of   people (here disabled people)  from
>information I have,  I consider that as not  being democratic..and also
>discriminatory.. .

It's discriminatory, but not undemocratic.

>The Media Carta (see www.pccharter.net)  says the right to communicate must
>be a fundamental  human right in the constitutions of all free nations..

There's a right to communicate.  There's not a right to information
necessarily.  And a "free nation" does not necessarily mean the same
thing as a "democratic" one.  There's no principle of "democracy" which
says everyone has equal rights to information.  It may be a basic
human right, but human rights don't equal democracy.

--Kynn

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Received on Sunday, 16 December 2001 16:27:20 UTC