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New disabled MP accuses government of ‘eugenics’

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Picture Courtesy of Guardian   By John Pring Disability News Service 6th July 2017 A newly-elected disabled MP has accused

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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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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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Joint – letter from the United Kingdom Disabled People’s Movement and Allied Civil Society Organisations to United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon

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Published By Black Triangle November 19th 2016 Secretary General   As U.K. disabled campaigners and civil society organisations we write

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MSPs hear call for government to ‘speak out more forcefully’ on WCA deaths

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    13th October 2016  By John Pring -Disability News Service A disabled activist has told a parliamentary committee that

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Ministers know their WCA system is increasing suicide risk, says Ken Loach

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By John Pring Disability News Service October 6th 2016   Government ministers know their “fitness for work” system is making

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Parents of Scottish ‘fit for work’ suicide man back call for Iain Duncan Smith prosecution

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    John Pring Disability News Service Thursday 28 July 2016 The parents of a disabled man who took his

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Benefit Deaths: North East England Man Puts in Complaint to Northumbria Police

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While the appropriate offence would be Misconduct in Public Office we would like share with you the following complaint to Northumbria

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Deidre Brock MP Tells Government Ministers Would Be Wise to Listen to Black Triangle Campaigners

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  In a Debate after the Queens speech  Deidre Brock MP said the following at 8.58; https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2016-05-18/debates/16051856000002/DebateOnTheAddress#contribution-16051881000088 “Let me offer

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