Petition Make sharing content of disabled children with the intent to humiliate illegal.

The number of hate crime incidences against disabled people are increasing. This is fuelled by sharing disparaging social media content. Disabled children often don't have a voice to defend themselves so should have special protection against behaviour which feeds dangerous negative attitudes.

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310 signatures

Progress of the petition towards its next target: 310 of 10,000 signatures required to get a government response

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10,000 signatures required to get a government response

Date closed 3 May 2017
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