Government side-stepping UN disability rights examination shows contempt for disabled people
Government side-stepping UN examination ‘shows contempt for disabled people’ By John Pring on 17th August 2023Category: Human Rights Listen
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EHRC report for UN on government’s rights violations ‘not fit for purpose’
By John Pring on 17th August 2023 Category: Human Rights Listen The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) is facing
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‘Fit for Work’ Part Two – BBC R4 – The suicide of Mr Kevin Dooley – By Jolyon Jenkins
Released On: 09 Jun 2023 Available for over a year For 30 years, governments have tried to get disabled people
Blame, exclusion and harm – the effects of labels in welfare & psychiatry
By Harvey Duke Published 15th June 2023 I’d like us to consider a thought experiment, which may help to show
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DWP criticised in parliament for ‘hiding’ information on starvation death
isten The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been criticised in parliament for its “serious” failure to provide crucial
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Watchdog receives hundreds of complaints over Telegraph’s ‘toxic’ benefits article
By John Pring Disability News Service on 8th June 2023 Category: Activism and Campaigning Listen A press watchdog has received hundreds
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Letter to the Editor of The Daily Telegraph from Over 100 Mental Health Professionals Re: Scapegoating of Disabled People
The Daily Telegraph: ‘Millions are claiming benefits without ever having to look for work, helping to push the tax burden
Fit For Work – Three Part Series on BBC Radio 4 by Jolyon Jenkins
’For 30 years, governments have tried to get disabled people into work by toughening up benefit rules. Part of the
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Daily Telegraph Editor approves publication of calculator mirroring the worst of Nazi eugenics propaganda
Exactly how much of your salary bankrolls the welfare state Britain isn’t working – calculate what it’s costing you ByAlex
DWP hands hundreds of millions more to firms linked to claimant deaths
DWP hands hundreds of millions more to firms linked to claimant deaths… but not Atos By John Pring on 1st
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Most vulnerable group of disabled social security recipients branded workshy and blamed for record levels of immigration in renewed British mass media hate campaign
Media hate campaign against support group claimants begins PUBLISHED BY BENEFITS AND WORK WEBSITE : 31 MAY 2023 Poster for
Why are disabled people worried sick about the abolition of the WCA?
BENEFITS AND WORK WEBSITE PUBLISHED: 27 MARCH 2023 When the government announced earlier this month that the work capability assessment
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Jeremy Vine programme accused of defaming, scapegoating disabled people in renewed British government war on the poorest
Broadcaster’s silence over ‘rabblerouser’ tweet on disability benefits By John Pring on 1st June 2023Category: Benefits and Poverty Listen The
The Tyranny of Tickboxes – How the U.K. government is escalating its war on disability rights in 2023
‘The tyranny of tick boxes’ By Harvey Duke Published 30th May 2023 I don’t see dead people. This isn’t
Letter from Mo Stewart Research to Steve Barclay MP Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Re: WCA
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UK Government dismisses new online petition calling for a full review into the way DWP administers Personal Independence Payment
Linda Howard Money and Consumer Writer Scottish Daily Record 15:05, 9 NOV 2022 The UK Government has dismissed a new online
News: After a long hiatus Black Triangle Campaign’s website is once again live and resurgent, ready to fight back in the U.K. disability rights struggles that now confront our people
Thursday 10th November 2022 Dearest Friends, Members, Supporters of Black Triangle Campaign and all people of good will throughout the
Coffey’s DWP watered down key parts of plan to prevent suicides
By John Pring on 20th October 2022Category: Benefits and Poverty Listen T The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) watered down key parts of
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DWP promises no-one will lose out in huge review of 1.6 million PIP cases
John Pring Disability News Service February 1st 2018 The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has promised that no
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No Right to Free Speech? Have we become a Fascist State?
Whatever happened to free speech and freedom of opinion? It seems that this is something Tory MPs don’t
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