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
Category: United Nations
EHRC report for UN on government’s rights violations ‘not fit for purpose’
By John Pring on 17th August 2023 Category: Human Rights Listen The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) is facing
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Backlash over ‘terrible insult’ of McVey’s DWP appointment
By John Pring Disability News Service 11th January 2018 Campaigners have reacted furiously to the decision to appoint
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Watchdog’s report shows impact of years of ‘hostile’ cuts on disabled people
By John Pring Disability News Service 23rd November 2017 Families which include both a disabled adult and a disabled child
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Scottish Governments Final Report on the Impact of Welfare Cuts
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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UK wants to promote its disability policies to rest of the world, says Mordaunt
By John Pring Disability News Service October 19th 2017 The minister for disabled people has dismissed a damning
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Mordaunt misleads MPs… again
By John Pring Disability News Service 12th October 2017 The minister for disabled people has again misled MPs, after
DPOs consider boycott of government engagement over ‘misrepresentation’ at UN
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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UK faces UN examination: DPOs ‘delighted’ with exposure of government’s failings
By John Pring Disability News Service August 24th 2017 Disabled people’s organisations who travelled to Geneva this week to
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Government’s UN response ‘exposes failings on disability convention’
By John Pring Disability News Service July 13th 2017 The government has ignored key evidence that demonstrates widespread breaches of
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UN confirms that UK government’s treaty violations were both grave AND systematic
B y John Pring Disability News Service June 29th 2017 The United Nations (UN) committee that found the UK government
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UK General Election: Why disabled people oppose the Tories ~ And need your help
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 #GE2017: Labour ‘will take a human rights-based approach’ to protecting disabled people
Election 2017: Labour ‘will take a rights-based approach’ to protecting disabled people Labour has promised that it will take a
#CripTheVoteUK #GE2017: Tory disability minister endorses forced institutionalisation of disabled people
Election 2017: Tory disability minister endorses forced institutionalisation By John Pring Disability News Service Thursday 1st June 2017
#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
“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
Shock as Universal Credit rules treat sick as ‘fit for all work-related activity’ – against GPs explicit orders
By John Pring Disability News Service Thursday 25 May 2017 Activists ‘horrified’ by universal credit rules forcing sick claimants into
Disabled people ‘denied access to justice by failure of judges on reasonable adjustments’
By John Pring Disability News Service May 11th 2017 Disabled people are being denied access to justice because of judges’
DWP declared a ‘leading’ Disability Confident employer, despite UN rights violations
By John Pring Disability News service May11th 2017 The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been declared a gold-standard
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Concern over UN’s ‘silence’ on benefit-related deaths
By John Pring Disability News Service 6th April 2017 Disabled activists fear that the UN committee examining the
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Potential Legal Challenge to £30 p.w. ESA Cut – defendants needed
From Monday (3rd April), new recipients of employment and support allowance deemed healthy enough to carry out ‘work related activities’
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