New Delhi, Oct. 8 -- ADF International has welcomed new guidelines from the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, saying they recognise violence in assisted dying where disability is treated as a basis for ending life.

"Living with a disability deserves a way forward, not a way out," the organisation said in a statement supplied to The Eastern Herald. It said it had advocated for the recognition.

Living with a disability deserves a way forward, not a way out.

New guidelines from the UN disability rights committee identify violence in assisted dying where disability is treated as a basis for ending life.@ADFIntl advocated for and welcomes this recognition.

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