A disable man is helped climbing the stair to access the platform Wednesday, April 26, 2023 at the Melun train station, outside Paris. An influential disabled rights group in France is boycotting a conference on disability Wednesday with French President Emmanuel Macron, amid frustration at dismal accessibility for people in wheelchairs and with other mobility challenges -- and years of unmet promises to make things better ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
“We really want the games to be a success,” Pascale Ribes, president of the lobbying group APF France Handicap, said in an Associated Press interview, but France needs “to press on the accelerator” because “a catastrophic scenario is in the offing if we don’t.” Macron’s office says the conference is the result of discussions with people with disabilities and others, and aimed at mobilizing all society to find “solutions to transform the daily life of people with disabilities, from school to work and accessibility issues.” It’s unclear what specifically will be announced to help people like Ribes and those who are boycotting.
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France under pressure over disabled rights as Olympics loomPascale Ribes and other campaigners for the rights of people with disabilities in France have an invite to meet the French president Wednesday. But because she uses a wheelchair, Ribes won’t risk traveling by public transport to the conference at the presidential Elysee Palace.
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France under pressure over disabled rights as Olympics loomThe nearest wheelchair-accessible Metro line is about a kilometer (half a mile) away and public buses in the French capital — host of the next Olympic Games — can be a time-gobbling ordeal for people with limited mobility, Ribes says.
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France under pressure over disabled rights as Olympics loomFrench President Emmanuel Macron's government is under pressure over the rights of people with disabilities as he hosts the country's first national conference on the issue since the COVID-19 pandemic. The looming deadlines in 2024 of the Olympic Games and Paralympics in Paris are also fueling campaigners' calls for rapid action on accessibility and other rights for people with disabilities. A leading lobbying group for people with disabilities in France says “a catastrophic scenario is in the offing' at the Paris Games, because of transport, housing and other challenges for people with limited mobility. This month, an arm of Europe's foremost human rights body rebuked France for multiple failings toward adults and children with disabilities.
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