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Baroness Jane Campbell, Conservatives, CRPD, EHRC

Disabled peer raises ‘deep concerns’ over impact of Brexit bill on rights

February 9, 2018 Holmey

By John Pring Disability News Service February 8th 2018 Disabled people should be concerned that the process of leaving

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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 Holmey

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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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 Holmey

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

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Action for Blind People, Conservatives, CRPD, Disability Confident, Disability Labour, Labour Party, Marsha de Cordova, Thomas Pocklington Trust

Labour conference: New disabled MP pledges to fight government’s assault on rights

October 2, 2017 Holmey

By John Pring Disability News Service September 28th 2017 A newly-elected MP has accused the government of putting its “head

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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 Holmey

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

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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 Holmey

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 Holmey

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

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

June 30, 2017 Holmey

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

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#CripTheVoteUK #GE2017: #SNP calls on next government to follow Scotland’s lead on benefits

June 1, 2017 Holmey

The SNP has called on the next UK government to follow Scotland’s lead in protecting disabled people from social security

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#CripTheVoteUK #GE2017: Tory disability minister endorses forced institutionalisation of disabled people

June 1, 2017 Holmey

Election 2017: Tory disability minister endorses forced institutionalisation By John Pring Disability News Service Thursday 1st June 2017

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

June 1, 2017 Holmey

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

May 29, 2017May 29, 2017 Holmey

“I cannot believe that so many people across the UK are planning to vote for such a hard, uncaring Tory Government – and that so many others will simply stand back and not vote at all” ~ Surgeon Dr Philippa Whitford MP (SNP) … Continue reading#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

Conservatives, CRPD, Disability Discrimination, Human Rights, UKCRPD, UN, United Nations

Disabled people ‘denied access to justice by failure of judges on reasonable adjustments’

May 12, 2017 Holmey

By John Pring Disability News Service May 11th 2017 Disabled people are being denied access to justice because of judges’

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Alice Kirby, Center of Disability Studies, Conservatives, CRIP The Vote UK, CRPD, Disability Law Hub, DWP, EHRC, Recovery in the Bin

Benefit claimants take to social media to describe DWP ‘hell’ and ‘abuse’

May 4, 2017 Holmey

By John Pring Disability News Service 4th May 2017 Disabled people have described how the “terrifying” and “abusive” benefit

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Black Triangle Campaign, CRPD, Damien Green, Disability Wales, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DRUK, DWP, EHRC, Human Rights, Inclusion Scotland, Scottish Mental Welfare Commission, UKCRPD, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP

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

February 23, 2017 Holmey

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

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Cradle2Grave Campaign, CRPD, EHRC, Fiona Robertson, Human Rights, Ken Loach, Paul Laverty, SNP, UKCRPD, UN, United Nations

Fiona Robertson SNP on Trump, protest and U.K. disabled people

February 14, 2017 Holmey

Re: #Bafta #IDanielBlake #KenLoach – Comment of the year – By Fiona Robertson ‘The one and only famous person outside

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Black Triangle Campaign, CRPD, Disability Wales, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DRUK, DWP, EHRC, Equal Lives, Future Events & Protests, Human Rights, Inclusion Scotland, ROFA, UKCRPD, UN, United Nations

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

February 10, 2017February 10, 2017 Holmey

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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CRPD, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DRUK, DWP, EHRC, Inclusion Scotland, Scottish Mental Welfare Commission, UKCRPD, UN

UN report failure on benefit deaths by national DPOs ‘is extreme insult to activists’

February 2, 2017 Holmey

By John Pring Disability News Service 2nd February 2017 A crucial report submitted to the United Nations by

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MPs hear of activists’ anger and frustration over ministers’ response to UN report

January 26, 2017 Holmey

By John Pring Disability News Service 26th January 2017 Disabled activists have told MPs and peers

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ANED, Black Triangle Campaign, CRPD, Debbie Jolly, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, Dr Alan Roulstone, ENIL, Rethinking Disability Representation in Museums and Art Galleries, UN, United Nations, Unum

Debbie Jolly: a ‘force for good’ and a passionate social model advocate

November 17, 2016 Holmey

By John Pring Disability News Service November 17th 2016 Activists have paid tribute to Debbie Jolly, a central figure

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Disabled peer raises ‘deep concerns’ over impact of Brexit bill on rights

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Scottish Governments Final Report on the Impact of Welfare Cuts

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Disabled people ‘denied access to justice by failure of judges on reasonable adjustments’

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Benefit claimants take to social media to describe DWP ‘hell’ and ‘abuse’

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

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