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Government’s UN response ‘exposes failings on disability convention’

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By John Pring Disability News Service July 13th 2017 The government has ignored key evidence that demonstrates widespread breaches of

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UN confirms that UK government’s treaty violations were both grave AND systematic

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B y John Pring Disability News Service June 29th 2017 The United Nations (UN) committee that found the UK government

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Anger, resignation… and optimism in wake of general election result

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By John Pring Disability News Service  14th June 2017 Disabled activists have reacted with a mixture of anger, resignation and

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UK General Election: Why disabled people oppose the Tories ~ And need your help

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Video: A woman with learning difficulties has accosted Theresa May while the prime minister was on a walkabout in an

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#CripTheVoteUK: As UK doctors’ leaders abdicate duty to defend patients’ human rights disabled people face perilous post-election future

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BMA ‘will be complicit in future deaths’, after silence on ‘fit note’ rules By John Pring Disability News Service Thursday

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#GE2017 “I cannot believe that so many people across the UK are planning to vote for such a hard, uncaring Tory Government” ~ Dr Philippa Whitford MP (SNP) Consultant Breast Cancer Surgeon

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Nobody is Unfit for Work

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  What you will read may be very distressing for you, but we are looking at the worst-case scenario and

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Disabled people ‘forced into dangerous workfare that breaches health and safety laws’

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  By John Pring Disability News Service 18th May 2017 Disabled people are being subjected to dangerous violations of health

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Concern over UN’s ‘silence’ on benefit-related deaths

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  By John Pring Disability News Service 6th April 2017   Disabled activists fear that the UN committee examining the

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Potential Legal Challenge to £30 p.w. ESA Cut – defendants needed

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From Monday (3rd April), new recipients of employment and support allowance deemed healthy enough to carry out ‘work related activities’

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‘Shabby’ Labour fails again on disability rights, after abstaining on PIP cuts vote

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  By John Pring Disability News Service 30th March 2017   The Labour party has been heavily criticised for again

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‘Fitness for work’ test has led to deterioration in mental health, say researchers

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By John Pring Disability News Service March 16th 2017 Disabled activists have welcomed “timely” new research that concludes that the

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DPOs join forces to brief UN on how UK has breached disability convention

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  By John Pring Disability News Service March 16th 2017   Disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) have come together to tell

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Activists bring ‘no more benefit deaths’ message to Westminster

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  By John Pring Disability News Service 9th March 2017   Disabled activists have explained why they took to the

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Billions of pounds of PIP cuts ‘will put lives at risk’

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  By John Pring   Disability News Service    2nd March  2017 The announcement of billions of pounds of cuts

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Watchdog refuses to withdraw report to UN that omits benefit deaths evidence

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By John Pring Disability News service 23rd February 2017 The equality and human rights watchdog has refused to withdraw its

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National DPOs forced to withdraw report sent to UN over benefit deaths evidence

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By John Pring Disability News Service 9th February 2017 Three national disabled people’s organisations have withdrawn a report they submitted

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Mother of ‘fit for work’ victim calls for ministers to face criminal charges

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By John Pring Disability News Service 9th February 2017   The mother of a disabled man who starved to death

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