Human Rights – Black Triangle Campaign

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Response to ‘Shaping Future Support’ by Mo Stewart

September 1, 2021 JJ

“The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) are immune to the amount of human suffering created since the adoption

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#Human Catastrophe, Black Triangle Campaign, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, Gail Ward, HMRC, Human Rights

Call For Evidence- Universal Credit Overpayments

August 26, 2021 JJ

Black Triangle Campaign and our sister organisation DPAC are calling for evidence regarding retrospective Overpayments. Have you received

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#Human Catastrophe, A.S., Assessments, Black Triangle Campaign, Black Triangle News, Capita, DWP, Human Rights, PIP

To live and die with a terminal illness in today’s Tory Britain – By A.S.

April 6, 2018 JJ

Reblogged with Permission of A.S. I cannot explain adequately what it is like to be terminally ill. To be told

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CCG, Conservatives, EHRC, Fleur Perry, Human Rights, Irwin Mitchell, Naphtali Denderowicz, NHS

NHS bodies face legal action by human rights watchdog over care home threat

March 23, 2018 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 22nd March 2018 The equality and human rights watchdog has written to 13

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Access To work, Action On Disability, British Deaf Association, Conservatives, Disability Justice Project, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, Ellen Clifford, Ester McVey, Human Rights, Inclusion London, StopChanges2AtW campaign, Tory. Tories, Tracey Lazard, UK Council on Deafness (UKCoD)

Access to Work cap announcement ‘does not go far enough’

March 23, 2018 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 22nd March 2018 The government’s decision to loosen its restrictions on Access to Work

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#Human Catastrophe, Black Triangle Campaign, Black Triangle News, Blog, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, Human Rights

No Right to Free Speech? Have we become a Fascist State?

January 13, 2018 JJ

Whatever happened to free speech and freedom of opinion? It seems that this is something Tory MPs don’t

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#Human Catastrophe, Anne McGuire, Black Triangle Campaign, Blog, Catherine Hale, Chronic Illness Inclusion Project, Conservatives, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DRUK, DWP, Ester McVey, Human Rights, ILF Fund, John McArdle, Linda Burnip, PIP Deaths, Sarah Newton Minister for Disabled People, Tory. Tories, UNCRPD, United Nations, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP

Backlash over ‘terrible insult’ of McVey’s DWP appointment

January 11, 2018January 11, 2018 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 11th January 2018 Campaigners have reacted furiously to the decision to appoint

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Sir Bert Massie: Tributes to ‘a life committed to disabled people’s liberation’

October 20, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service October 19th 2017 Tributes have been paid to Sir Bert Massie, the chair of

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Black Triangle Campaign, Conservatives, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, Equal Lives, Human Rights, Inclusion London, Inclusion Scotland, John McArdle, ROFA, Sally Witcher

August 31, 2017 JJ

By Steven Naysmith http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/15508062.UK_Government_cuts_driving_disabled_people_into_poverty__key_UN_committee_says/ Reblogged DISABLED people are dying as a result of austerity measures and discrimination, campaigners have

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UK faces UN examination: DPOs ‘delighted’ with exposure of government’s failings

August 24, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service August 24th 2017 Disabled people’s organisations who travelled to Geneva this week to

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UK faces UN examination: Government cuts caused ‘human catastrophe’

August 24, 2017 JJ

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

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DWP breaks promise to stop harassing child abuse victim in run-up to trial

August 17, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service August 17th 2017 The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has broken its

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McDonnell calls for disabled-led solution to care crisis, as DPAC occupies parliament

July 22, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service July 2017 Labour’s shadow chancellor has called for disabled people themselves to be given

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New disabled MP accuses government of ‘eugenics’

July 8, 2017 JJ

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

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Conservatives, DWP, Human Rights, I Daniel Blake, Jeremy Corbyn, Labour Party, Lord Colin Low

Crossbench disabled peer calls for an end to austerity, and the misery it has caused

June 30, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service June 29th 2017 A crossbench disabled peer has called for an end to

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Atos, Black Triangle Campaign, Capita, Conservative Disability Group, Conservatives, DWP, EHRC, Gail Ward, Human Rights, John McArdle, Paul Gray

Rebranding of ‘toxic’ Atos will fail, activists promise

June 16, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 14th June 2017 The “toxic” government contractor Atos has been accused of

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

June 2, 2017 JJ

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

June 1, 2017 JJ

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 JJ

“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

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Nobody is Unfit for Work

May 26, 2017 JJ

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

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