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
Government side-stepping UN examination ‘shows contempt for disabled people’ By John Pring on 17th August 2023Category: Human Rights Listen
By John Pring on 17th August 2023 Category: Human Rights Listen The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) is facing
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“The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) are immune to the amount of human suffering created since the adoption
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By John Pring Disability News Service 22nd March 2018 The government appears to have scrapped its cross-departmental disability strategy –
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By John Pring Disability News Service 23rd November 2017 Families which include both a disabled adult and a disabled child
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By John Pring Disability News Service 16th November 2017 The new minister for disabled people is facing criticism over her
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By John Pring Disability News Service October 19th 2017 The minister for disabled people has dismissed a damning
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By John Pring Disability News Service 12th October 2017 The SNP’s annual conference has unanimously called on the UK government
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By John Pring Disability News Service September 7th 2017 Disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) are to consider boycotting any engagement with
Continue readingDPOs consider boycott of government engagement over ‘misrepresentation’ at UN
By John Pring Disability News Service August 24th 2017 Disabled people’s organisations who travelled to Geneva this week to
Continue readingUK faces UN examination: DPOs ‘delighted’ with exposure of government’s failings
By John Pring Disability News Service August 24th 2017 An international committee of disabled human rights experts
Continue readingUK faces UN examination: Government cuts caused ‘human catastrophe’
By John Pring Disability News Service July 2017 Labour’s shadow chancellor has called for disabled people themselves to be given
By John Pring Disability News Service 6th July 2017 The concept of personal assistance has been severely damaged by
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Image Courtesy of Mirror By John Pring Disability News Service 6th July 2017 The two newest disabled MPs in
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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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By John Pring Disability News Service June 29th 2017 A new report has called for greater awareness of the
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B y John Pring Disability News Service June 29th 2017 The United Nations (UN) committee that found the UK government
Continue readingUN confirms that UK government’s treaty violations were both grave AND systematic
Video: A woman with learning difficulties has accosted Theresa May while the prime minister was on a walkabout in an
Continue readingUK General Election: Why disabled people oppose the Tories ~ And need your help
The SNP has called on the next UK government to follow Scotland’s lead in protecting disabled people from social security
Election 2017: Labour ‘will take a rights-based approach’ to protecting disabled people Labour has promised that it will take a