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No one is allowed to treat you unfairly because of your disability. You have the right to be treated the same as everyone else.

You have the right to:

• life;
• be safe in emergency situations;
• be treated fairly by the law;
• make your own decisions;
• have your own money.
• have a private life;
• choose your own friends;
• your own opinion about things;
• choose your own religion;
• have a private relationship with another person;
• have sex with another person if you are both adults, and that's what you both want;
• get married if you and your partner want to;
• have children if you and your partner want to;
• live where you want to;
• live in the community;
• be as independent as possible;
• be able to use things that everyone else uses;
• a good education;
• get involved in politics;
• work;
• a good standard of living;
• the best possible health care;
• choose your own doctor;
• be invovled in sport;
• go to art galleries, museums, movies, plays and concerts;
• get extra help you need because of your race, language or culture; and
• belong to your culture.

Excerpt from: Queensland Advocacy Incorporated 2006, Everyone has human rights. Understand yours! ISBN: 0-9775937-0-3. Brisbane.
Full book Everyone has human rights. Understand yours! available to download from Queensland Advocacy Incorporated