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British activist
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The details
Biography
Introduction
Dr. Rachel Mary Rosalind Hurst, CBE is the Director of Disability Awareness in Action (DAA), an international information/research/evidence network, run for and by disabled people.
Founding
The DAA was established to:
- Provide a network for the exchange of information and experience between disabled people and their representative organisations’ worldwide.
- Support disabled people’s self-advocacy
- Promote and protect disabled people’s human and civil rights
Dr. Hurst has worked with disabled people's organisations, policy-makers, governments and the UN for over thirty years on independent living, rights and justice and bioethics.
Diane Pretty's death
Following the death of Diane Pretty, a sufferer of extreme motor neurone disease, who had unsuccessfully fought for a right for assisted death, Hurst said that it would be very wrong for justice to say in certain circumstances people can die ... [I]t would be a slippery slope and many people who did not want to die could be affected.