CitizenGO pleads for disabled Lambert

Lambert

The international human rights non-governmental organization, CitizenGO, is currently pleading for a life in France.

In its email to Oseyiza Oogbodo Blog:

A disabled man is currently being killed in France.

Vincent Lambert has been disabled since a motorcycle accident in 2008. Now, France is withholding food and fluids from him, which will kill him.

Even the United Nations has spoken out against this travesty. Please sign now to let President Macron know that the world is watching. France must stop killing Vincent Lambert.

This is perhaps the most important and urgent message I have ever written to you.

On May 20, the hospital in Reims, France where Lambert is living began to deeply sedate him and withdraw the tube that provides him food and water. Later in the day, a Court of Appeals in Paris ordered that he continue to receive food and fluids.

But on Friday, June 28, France’s highest court overturned the decision of the Court of Appeals in Paris. Now, since July 2nd, Lambert is once again being sedated and dehydrated. This forced dehydration will eventually cause his death. He will die of thirst, and he will suffer terribly.

Sign now: http://www.citizengo.org/en/170802-protect-vincent-lamberts-life

Lambert, who has been living with a cognitive disability since his accident, breathes on his own and does not require medical treatment. He only requires basic care, including food and fluids. His wife petitioned the court in 2015 to have food and fluids withheld, but his parents have been trying to save his life.

A few weeks ago, the United Nations Committee on the Rights of People with Disabilities petitioned the French government to prevent him from being killed. They stated that his death by dehydration contravenes his rights as a person with disabilities. Section 25f of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities requires nations to:

25(f) Prevent discriminatory denial of health care or health services or food and fluids on the basis of disability.

Sign this petition to French President Emmanuel Macron urging him to intervene in the case of Vincent Lambert.

Sign here: http://www.citizengo.org/en/170802-protect-vincent-lamberts-life

Lambert is not dying, but withholding food and fluids will cause him to die of dehydration.

No human being should ever be intentionally killed by euthanasia or dehydration.

Protect Vincent Lambert's life!

Sincerely,

Caroline Craddock and the entire CitizenGO team

Click here to sign: http://www.citizengo.org/en/170802-protect-vincent-lamberts-life

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