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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By John Pring Disability News Service 12th April 2018 Three disabled politicians have begun legal action against the government over
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By John Pring Disability News Service 25th January 2018 A government climbdown over new disability benefit rules that were found
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By John Pring Disability News Service 11th January 2018 Campaigners have reacted furiously to the decision to appoint
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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 9th November 2017 A young disabled woman has been unable to leave a
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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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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 12th October 2017 The minister for disabled people has again misled MPs, after
By John Pring Disability News Service September 28th 2017 A disabled student has told Labour’s annual party conference that she
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By John Pring Disability News Service September 28th 2017 Labour’s shadow work and pensions secretary has pledged to transform the
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By John Pring Disability News Service September 7th 2017 A UN committee has told the UK government to produce
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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
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By John Pring Disability News Service August 24th 2017 Disabled people’s organisations who travelled to Geneva this week to
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By John Pring Disability News Service August 24th 2017 An international committee of disabled human rights experts
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By John Pring Disability News Service July 2017 Labour’s shadow chancellor has called for disabled people themselves to be given