North Wales Assembly Member Mark Isherwood has this week welcomed an Inquiry into Human Rights in Wales and is calling on his constituents to provide feedback for the inquiry.
The Chair of the Equality, Local Government and Communities Committee this week gave a Statement in the Senedd on the Committee’s Inquiry into Human Right and said the Committee would like to receive evidence from a very wide range of organisations and individuals.
Mr Isherwood is therefore urging people in his regional constituency to come forward.
He said: “As the Chair asked, I am pleased to draw the work of this Inquiry to the attention of people in North Wales and encourage their feedback to the Committee.”
Responding as Welsh Conservative Shadow Secretary for Communities to the Chair’s Statement in the Chamber on Wednesday, Mr Isherwood questioned the him over many aspects of the Inquiry and called on the Committee to draw on a piece of work based on the human rights round-table discussion held by the Equality and Human Rights Commission, the Children’s Commissioner for Wales and the Older People’s Commissioner for Wales, with 22 organisations represented, including Stonewall Cymru, Mencap and Disability Wales.
He said: “They made a series of recommendations on a way forward that could help take forward human rights in Wales - to develop a human rights narrative, as they said, that sets out that human rights are for everyone and that they can also be used to improve services.
“Human rights have particular relevance for older people, who may find themselves in situations where they experience infringements to their human rights later in life. There are few more basic human rights, as Age Cymru state, than that of being protected from violence or exploitation, and older people must not be placed at risk of abuse or neglect”.
Mr Isherwood also called for the Inquiry to consider the human rights of asylum seekers and refugees in Wales, and disabled people.