Petition addressed to the future French ministers responsible for health, disability, and foreign affairs, upon their entry into office:
On June 23, 2025, the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UN-CRPD) opened a official follow-up procedure on the proposed French law on “assisted aid in dying,” with the support of the signatories of this petition. The Committee asked your predecessors to respond to questions, which they did in a letter received by the UN-CRPD on August 26.
After reviewing the government's responses, the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities posted its recommendations to France online on September 10. It calls for the suspension of the adoption process of the law, the protection of persons with disabilities by taking into account their specific vulnerabilities, the repeal of certain provisions of the text described as “validist,” and the strengthening of support and care solutions for these individuals.
Due to the government reshuffle, consideration of the bill has been suspended. It is now incumbent upon you, as the new ministers, to bring France into compliance with international requirements for the protection of persons with disabilities.
That is why we are writing to ask you to:
- examine and implement each of the recommendations of the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities;
- promote the examination of the proposed law on palliative care and abandon the one on Aid in dying;
- hear the associations representing persons with disabilities.
