An influential disabled rights group in France is boycotting a conference on disability Wednesday with French President Emmanuel Macron, amid frustration at years of unmet promises to make Paris more accessible ahead of the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
The group Collectif Handicaps, an umbrella group for more than 50 organizations advocating for disabled rights, announced hours before the conference in Paris that it would not take part. Its leaders had asked for the opportunity to speak in front of Macron and were refused. The group worries that measures Macron is expected to announce Wednesday will fall short of what is needed.
