MCS Now a Disability — What about EHS?
The UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities recently examined how Canada is implementing the disability convention. The UN report (April 2025) recognises MCS as a disability and makes recommendations to improve living conditions related to MCS. The report doesn’t say anything about EHS.
Many people with EHS also have MCS (25%). P. Irigaray et al call MCS and EHS physical syndromes that arise from environmental influences through a comparable mechanism. They set biomarkers for diagnosis. Unfortunately, MCS, like EHS, is not yet medically accepted.
However, the convention recognises disabilities even if they are not (yet) medically demonstrable. What matters is that the condition hampers a normal life. Therefore, this recognition of MCS by the UN can be of great value for people with EHS.
The Canadian MCS organization ASEQ-EHAQ, who was a key advocate in this MCS recognition process, says: ‘This recognition highlights the global acknowledgment of MCS and lays the foundation for future advocacy and systemic change.’
Bringing to the UN’s attention the size of the population affected and the severity of EHS and implications for the lives of individual electro-sensitive people could lead to widespread recognition of the UN of EHS. And that could bring closer the enforcement of measures by direct authorities.
Judith
Hey, I am writing a book about the situation of EHS and MCS people. Can you please post the link to the UN-report (April 2025) you mean or at least the title and the page where the recognition happens.
Without the link to the document your statement is worth nothing except a dream. I am addressing politicians and decision makers in public offices. So a rigorous basis of claims is important for them. Your answer asap would be highly appreciated.