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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 report to the UN on the implementation of its disability convention, despite omitting vital information that links government ministers with … Continue reading →

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Posted in 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 | Tagged Benefit Deaths, Benefits, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, Disabled People Against Cuts, DNS, DWP, Equality, Human rights, John Pring, Scottish politics, UK news, UNCRPD, Welfare Reform, Work Capability Assessment | Leave a reply

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

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Re: #Bafta #IDanielBlake #KenLoach – Comment of the year – By Fiona Robertson ‘The one and only famous person outside of the disability community to use his privilege to take on the government. We are being killed by the government. … Continue reading →

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Posted in Cradle2Grave Campaign, CRPD, EHRC, Fiona Robertson, Human Rights, Ken Loach, Paul Laverty, SNP, UKCRPD, UN, United Nations | Tagged Austerity, Benefit Deaths, Disability, Disability Politics, disability rights, Equality, Human rights, Politics, Poverty, Scottish politics, UK news, UNCRPD, Welfare, Welfare Reform | Leave a reply

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By John Pring Disability News Service 9th February 2017 Three national disabled people’s organisations have withdrawn a report they submitted to the United Nations, after admitting that it failed to speak out strongly enough on links between the government’s welfare … Continue reading →

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Posted in 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 | Tagged Benefit Deaths, Benefits, Disability, Disability News Service, disability rights, Disabled People Against Cuts, DNS, DWP, Human rights, John Pring, Politics, UK news, UNCRPD, Welfare Reform, Work Capability Assessment | Leave a reply

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

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  By John Pring Disability News Service 2nd February 2017   A crucial report submitted to the United Nations by three national disabled people’s organisations has been criticised for failing to speak out strongly enough on the links between the … Continue reading →

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Posted in CRPD, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DRUK, DWP, EHRC, Inclusion Scotland, Scottish Mental Welfare Commission, UKCRPD, UN | Tagged Benefit Deaths, Benefits, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, Disabled People Against Cuts, DNS, DWP, Human rights, Politics, Scotland, Scottish politics, Welfare, Welfare Reform, Work Capability Assessment | Leave a reply

Sayce announces retirement, as ‘she is shortlisted’ for EHRC appointment

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  By John Pring Disability News Service 19/01/2017   The chief executive of the UK’s most prominent national disabled people’s organisation (DPO) has announced that she is to retire from her post. Liz Sayce has headed Disability Rights UK (DR … Continue reading →

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Posted in DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DRUK, EHRC, Inclusion London | Tagged Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, Disabled People Against Cuts, DNS, Equality, Human rights, John Pring, UK news | Leave a reply

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 to you to denounce attempts to delegitimise the UN interim report by UN officials carried out under Article 6 of … Continue reading →

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Posted in Black Triangle Campaign, Chris Grayling, Conservatives, Debbie Jolly, Disability Discrimination, Disability Hate crime, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, EHRC, Human Rights, Ian Duncan Smith, IFS, Lord David Freud, Mary O Hara, Maximus, Mo Stewart, PIP, UKCRPD, UN, United Nations, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP | Tagged Austerity, Benefits, Black Triangle Campaign, Catalina Devandas Aguila, Disability, Disability News Service, disability rights, Disabled People Against Cuts, Equality, foodbanks, Grant Shapps, Iain Duncan Smith, John Pring, PIP, Politics, Poverty, Raquel Rolnik, Scotland, UK news, UNCRPD, Welfare Reform, welfare state, Work Capability Assessment | 1 Reply

UN’s conclusion that UK violated disability rights is ‘vindication’ for activists

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By John Pring Disability News Service Thursday November 10th 2016 Disabled activists who persuaded the United Nations (UN) to investigate serious breaches of rights by the UK government say their four-year journey has been vindicated, after a report concluded there … Continue reading →

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Posted in Black Triangle Campaign, CRPD, Damien Green, Debbie Jolly, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, EHRC, Human Rights, Ian Duncan Smith, Pats Petition, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP, WOW Campaign | Tagged Atos, Austerity, Benefit Deaths, Benefits, Black Triangle Campaign, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, Human rights, Iain Duncan Smith, John Pring, Politics, UK news, Welfare Reform, Work Capability Assessment | Leave a reply

Activists welcome disability commissioner’s decision to leave EHRC

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by John Pring Disability News Service 3rd November 2016 Disabled activists have welcomed the decision of the equality watchdog’s disability commissioner not to seek a second four-year term. The decision of Lord [Chris] Holmes was only revealed after the Department … Continue reading →

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Posted in Black Triangle Campaign, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DRUK, DWP, EHRC, Pats Petition, Shaping our Lives | Tagged Black Triangle Campaign, Disability, Disability News Service, disability rights, Disabled People Against Cuts, DNS, DWP, Equality, Human rights, John Pring, Politics, Welfare | Leave a reply

DWP issued guidance that made suicides more likely, then ‘lied’ to cover its tracks

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By John Pring Disability News Service Thursday September 29th 2016 or removing regulations 29 and 35, and said that such a move would provide substantial savings. But the memo – drawn up before the 2015 election, and to be used … Continue reading →

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Posted in Black Triangle News, Conservatives, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, EHRC, Human Rights, Liz Carr, Maximus, Not Dead Yet, Rick Burgess | Tagged Austerity, Benefit Deaths, Benefits, Black Triangle, Black Triangle Campaign, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, Disabled People Against Cuts, DNS, DWP, Human rights, John Pring, Welfare, Welfare Reform, Work Capability Assessment | Leave a reply

Disabled researcher’s book exposes ‘corporate demolition of welfare state’

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15th September 2016 John Pring http://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/ A string of activists, academics, politicians and journalists have welcomed the publication of a new book by a disabled researcher which exposes how successive governments have planned the “demolition of the welfare state”. Mo Stewart … Continue reading →

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Posted in Atos, Baroness Jane Campbell, Conservatives, Disability Discrimination, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, EHRC, Human Rights, Ian Duncan Smith, Maximus, Mo Stewart, Peter Beresford, Prof Danny Dorling, Shaping our Lives, UKCRPD, UKDPC, UN, Unum, WCA Deaths, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP | Tagged Dame Anne Begg, Mary O'Hara, Sir Bert Massie | Leave a reply

Minister ‘misled peers’ over EHRC’s request to run equality helpline

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15th September 2016  John Pring http://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/   A minister is facing accusations that she misled the House of Lords over the government’s “devastating” decision to allow a security firm with “an appalling history of abuse and mismanagement” to run the … Continue reading →

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Posted in Disability Rights Commisiion, EHRC | Tagged Baroness Jane Campbell, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, DNS, Human rights, Politics, UK news | Leave a reply

FoI reveals EHRC chair’s ‘conflict of interest’ over welfare reform inquiry

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15th September 2016 John Pring http://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/ The equality watchdog’s new chair, who is set to lead an investigation into whether Tory welfare reforms breached disabled people’s human rights, worked for the government on key contracts at the heart of those reforms, … Continue reading →

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Posted in DWP, EHRC, Labour Party, PIP | Tagged Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, DWP, Human rights, Politics, UK news, Welfare | Leave a reply

Disability hate crime has fallen since 2007-2010, surprise new figures suggest

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September 8th 2016 John Pring Disability News Service Levels of disability hate crime in England and Wales have fallen in the years between 2007 and 2014, figures contained in a new report by the equality watchdog suggest. The publication is … Continue reading →

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Posted in Disability Discrimination, Disability Hate crime, Disability Hate Crime Network, EHRC, Home Office, Labour Party | Tagged Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, John Pring | Leave a reply

EHRC earns cautious approval for response to Equality Act report

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The equality watchdog has earned cautious approval for its response to recommendations made by a House of Lords committee that examined the impact of the Equality Act on disabled people. The committee concluded earlier this year that the government was … Continue reading →

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Posted in Baroness Jane Campbell, DRUK, EHRC | Tagged Disability News Service, disability rights, Equality, Human rights, Politics, Society | Leave a reply

Delayed UN examination of UK government ‘will take place next year’

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Disabled people’s organisations and grassroots groups are set to call on disabled people across England to provide the evidence they need to prepare a “hard-hitting” report on the government’s failure to implement the UN disability convention. The Reclaiming Our Futures … Continue reading →

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Posted in Allfie, CRPD, Disability Wales, DRUK, EHRC, Equal Lives, Human Rights, Inclusion London, ROFA, Sisters of Frida, UKCRPD, United Nations | Tagged Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, Disabled People Against Cuts, DNS, Equality, Human rights, UK news, UNCRPD, Welfare, Welfare Reform | Leave a reply

What does Owen Smith believe?

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The right of the PLP are faced with an impossible conundrum. On the one hand, many of them believe that only through being tougher than the Tories on welfare, or being seen to want to drastically reduce immigration, can they … Continue reading →

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Posted in Black Triangle News, DWP, EHRC, Human Rights, Labour Party, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP | Tagged Benefit Deaths, Benefits, Disability Politics, disability rights, DWP, Human rights, Politics, Welfare Reform, Work Capability Assessment | 2 Replies

Brexit vote: Disabled people speak of shock, horror and dismay

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Disabled people have spoken of their horror, shock and anger at learning of the vote to leave the European Union in last week’s referendum. Although many disabled people voted for Brexit, the vast majority of leading disabled activists were strongly … Continue reading →

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Posted in Black Triangle News, CRPD, Disability Discrimination, EHRC, UKCRPD | Tagged Disability Now, European Disability Forum (EDF), European Network on Independent Living (ENIL) | 1 Reply

Brexit vote: Fear and uncertainty over impact of EU exit

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Campaigners and experts say they fear that Britain’s vote to leave the European Union (EU) could have serious consequences for disabled people, although it is too early for an accurate assessment of the likely impact. Among the concerns raised are … Continue reading →

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Posted in Black Triangle News, CRPD, EHRC, EU Referendum 2016, Peter Beresford, UKCRPD | Tagged Disability Law Hub, DRUK, Inclusion Scotland, Shaping outr Lives | Leave a reply

UN Slams Tories over Human Right Abuses

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  While the country is entrenched in the mire of the EU referendum fallout, the Tories have just been slammed by the United Nations (UN) – for human rights abuses. But not abroad. Here, in the UK. As The Canary previously … Continue reading →

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Posted in Black Triangle News, CRPD, Disability Discrimination, DWP, EHRC, Human Rights, Ian Duncan Smith, UKCRPD, WCA Deaths, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP | Tagged Austerity, Benefits, disability rights, Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, Equality, foodbanks, Human rights, Iain Duncan Smith, Poverty, Scottish politics, Society, UK news, UNCRPD, Welfare Reform, Work Capability Assessment, Workfare | Leave a reply

Ministers ‘breach FoI laws’ by delaying release of fresh benefit deaths reviews

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Ministers are delaying the release of nine secret reviews into the deaths of benefit claimants, even though civil servants apparently prepared them for release three weeks ago under freedom of information laws. A response to a request to release redacted … Continue reading →

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Posted in DWP, EHRC, Human Rights, Ian Duncan Smith, Stephen Crabb, WCA Deaths, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP | Tagged Benefit Deaths, disability rights, DNS, DWP, Human rights, Welfare, Work Capability Assessment | 1 Reply

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