India has four Young Voices groups – one each in Delhi, Bangalore, Jharkhand and Mumbai. Members focus on making sure that existing laws are enforced and lobbying for new legislation. Campaign issues include: access to public sector jobs, accessible voting, access to social protection and advocacy for a new law to harmonise with the UNCRPD.
Leonard Cheshire Disability
Young Voices
04 May 2011
All banking services must be accessible, say Bangalore Young Voices
Young Voices members from Bangalore, India, have carried their campaign for accessible banking services one step further through press coverage in The Times of India, a major national print and online newspaper. Young Voices members had carried out an access audit of bank premises, cash point machines and bank policies and used the data to show that people with visual impairments were often denied bank accounts, could not access cash machines and could not enter some bank premises. Read the article here.
Young Voices is an international campaign of the Leonard Cheshire Disability Global Alliance