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Government side-stepping UN disability rights examination shows contempt for disabled people

August 18, 2023 John McArdle

Government side-stepping UN examination ‘shows contempt for disabled people’ By John Pring on 17th August 2023Category: Human Rights Listen

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Blog, ECHR, The Institute for Employment Studies (IES), UN, UNCRPD, United Nations, WCA Deaths, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP

EHRC report for UN on government’s rights violations ‘not fit for purpose’

August 18, 2023 John McArdle

By John Pring on 17th August 2023 Category: Human Rights Listen The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) is facing

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National Survivor User Network, Professor Simon Wessely, UNCRPD

Mental Health Act review ‘is just tinkering around the edges’ of reform

May 3, 2018 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 3rd May 2018 Mental health survivors and service-users have been left “underwhelmed” by the

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Access to Elected Office Fund, Disability Politics UK, EHRC, More United., UNCRPD

Government faces legal action over election access fund

April 12, 2018 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 12th April 2018 Three disabled politicians have begun legal action against the government over

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Disability Justice Project., DWP, Inclusion London, Svetlana Kotova, UNCRPD

DWP U-turns on PIP mobility rules that were based on ‘unsupported opinions’

January 26, 2018 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 25th January 2018 A government climbdown over new disability benefit rules that were found

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#Human Catastrophe, Anne McGuire, Black Triangle Campaign, Blog, Catherine Hale, Chronic Illness Inclusion Project, Conservatives, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DRUK, DWP, Ester McVey, Human Rights, ILF Fund, John McArdle, Linda Burnip, PIP Deaths, Sarah Newton Minister for Disabled People, Tory. Tories, UNCRPD, United Nations, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP

Backlash over ‘terrible insult’ of McVey’s DWP appointment

January 11, 2018January 11, 2018 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 11th January 2018 Campaigners have reacted furiously to the decision to appoint

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DRUK, DWP, EHRC, Ellen Clifford, Inclusion London, Pats Petition, Rick Burgess, UN, UNCRPD, United Nations, WOW Campaign

Watchdog’s report shows impact of years of ‘hostile’ cuts on disabled people

November 24, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 23rd November 2017 Families which include both a disabled adult and a disabled child

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Conservatives, disAbility Cornwall & lsles of Scilly, Penny Mordaunt, Peter Beresford, Sarah Newton MP, Shaping our Lives, UN, UNCRPD, WCA Deaths, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP

New minister for disabled people criticised by her local DPO over voting record

November 17, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 16th November 2017 The new minister for disabled people is facing criticism over her

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Sisters of Frida, UNCRPD

‘Shocking’ case of disabled woman trapped in care home that wants to evict her

November 10, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 9th November 2017 A young disabled woman has been unable to leave a

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#Human Catastrophe, Conservatives, CRPD, Jeane Freeman, Penny Mordaunt, SNP, UNCRPD, United Nations

Scottish Governments Final Report on the Impact of Welfare Cuts

November 7, 2017 JJ

The shocking rise of childhood poverty(UK data), with all its associated harms, which will take us back 20 years. From

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David Gawke, Deidre Brock, EHRC, ODI, Penny Mordaunt, UN, UNCRPD, United Nations

UK wants to promote its disability policies to rest of the world, says Mordaunt

October 20, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service October 19th 2017 The minister for disabled people has dismissed a damning

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Black Triangle Campaign, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, Fiona Robertson, John McArdle, SNP, UN, UNCRPD

SNP hears ‘justice for the dead’ demand as it backs call to implement UN report

October 13, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 12th October 2017 The SNP’s annual conference has unanimously called on the UK government

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Conservatives, CRPD, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, Marsha de Cordova, Motobility, Penny Mordaunt, PIP, Tories, UNCRPD, United Nations, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP

Mordaunt misleads MPs… again

October 12, 2017October 13, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 12th October 2017 The minister for disabled people has again misled MPs, after

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Disability Labour, Labour Party, NHS, Rebecca Boot, UNCRPD, Wheelchair

Labour conference: Student forced to crowdfund pain-free wheelchair

October 2, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service September 28th 2017 A disabled student has told Labour’s annual party conference that she

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#Human Catastrophe, Black Triangle Campaign, Catherine Hale, Chronic Illness Inclusion Project, Debbie Abrahams, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, Ellen Clifford, Jessica Kellgren-Fozard, PCS, UNCRPD

Labour conference: Abrahams pledges ‘supportive and enabling’ social security system

October 2, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service September 28th 2017 Labour’s shadow work and pensions secretary has pledged to transform the

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Black Triangle Campaign, CRPD, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, Ellen Clifford, John McArdle, Sarah Rennie, Sisters of Frida, UNCRPD

UN demands annual UK progress report on correcting ‘grave and systematic violations’

September 7, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service September 7th 2017 A UN committee has told the UK government to produce

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Allfie, Black Triangle Campaign, British Deaf Association, Disability Wales, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DRUK, Equal Lives, Inclusion London, Inclusion Scotland, ROFA, Sisters of Frida, Tories, UN, UNCRPD, United Nations

DPOs consider boycott of government engagement over ‘misrepresentation’ at UN

September 7, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service September 7th 2017 Disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) are to consider boycotting any engagement with

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Allfie, Conservatives, CRPD, Disability Wales, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DRUK, DWP, Ellen Clifford, Equal Lives, Human Rights, Inclusion London, Inclusion Scotland, ODI, Rhian Davies, Sally Witcher, Tories, Tracey Lazard, UN, UNCRPD, United Nations

UK faces UN examination: DPOs ‘delighted’ with exposure of government’s failings

August 24, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service August 24th 2017 Disabled people’s organisations who travelled to Geneva this week to

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Allfie, CRPD, Disability Wales, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DRUK, DWP, Equal Lives, Human Rights, Inclusion London, Inclusion Scotland, UN, UNCRPD, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP

UK faces UN examination: Government cuts caused ‘human catastrophe’

August 24, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service August 24th 2017 An international committee of disabled human rights experts

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Conservatives, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, HOC, Human Rights, ILF Fund, Jeremy Corbyn, John McDonnell, Labour Party, UN, UNCRPD, Winvisible

McDonnell calls for disabled-led solution to care crisis, as DPAC occupies parliament

July 22, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service July 2017 Labour’s shadow chancellor has called for disabled people themselves to be given

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