2020年4月6日
障害学会理事会
■声明
新型コロナウイルス感染症の蔓延防止のために全力で取り組んでくださっている行政、医療関係者をはじめとする皆様のご努力に心より敬意を表します。
新型コロナウイルス感染症に関係して、障害者にとっての多くの課題がありますが、ここでは二つに絞って申し上げます。
●障害者への情報提供
行政機関には、障害者基本法や障害者差別解消法に基づいて、手話や文字、わかりやすい表現をはじめとする様々な形での情報提供をお願いします。情報のバリアをなくし、合理的配慮を行うことで障害者が、生と死を分ける新型コロナウイルス感染症に関する情報に迅速に接することができるような対応をお願いします。
●障害者の命と安全確保：優生思想
医療関係者の皆様には、万が一にも障害者の生命を軽んじることがないようにお願いします。それは、障害者差別解消法が官民に対して禁じている「不当な差別的取り扱い」です。日本が批准している障害者権利条約も、障害者の生命の権利（10条）と危険な状況においての障害者の保護及び安全確保（11条）を求めています。障害者の生命の価値を低く見てしまう差別的な考え方（優生思想）に基づいて、障害者への治療が拒否されたり、後回しにされてしまうという差別が世界ですでに起きていることを私たちは認識しております。
Board of Directors of
JAPAN SOCIETY FOR DISABILITY STUDIES
Statement on
COVID-19 and Persons with Disabilities
6 April 2020
We express our sincere respect to the efforts of the government and medical professionals who are doing their best to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
There are many challenges facing persons with disabilities related to COVID-19, but we focus on two here.
Provision of Accessible Information to Persons with Disabilities
We request governments and administrative organizations to provide information in various forms, including sign language, captions, and plain language and Easy Read versions, based on the Basic Act for Persons with Disabilities and the Act for the Elimination of Discrimination against Persons with Disabilities. We hope that by eliminating information barriers and providing reasonable accommodation, persons with disabilities are able to swiftly gain access to information on new coronavirus infections that separate life from death.
Ensuring Life and Safety of Persons with Disabilities: Fight against Eugenic and Ableist Thoughts
We request all medical professionals not to undervalue the lives of people with disabilities. It is “unfair discriminatory treatment” that the Act for the Elimination of Discrimination against Persons with Disabilities prohibits in both public and private sectors. The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), which Japan has ratified, also protects the rights of persons with disabilities to life (Article 10) and ensure the protection and safety of persons with disabilities in situations of risk (Article 11). We are globally witnessing discrimination against persons with disabilities, whose treatment has been denied or delayed based on eugenic and ableist thoughts that underestimate the value of life of persons with disabilities.