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EHRC Chair Baroness Falkner
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EHRC report for UN on government’s rights violations ‘not fit for purpose’

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By John Pring on 17th August 2023 Category: Human Rights Listen The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) is facing

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Response to ‘Shaping Future Support’ by Mo Stewart

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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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Government’s suicide prevention boss refuses to call for action on ESA risk stats

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By John Pring Disability News Service February 8th 2018 The head of the government’s national suicide prevention strategy has refused

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New minister for disabled people criticised by her local DPO over voting record

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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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New disabled MP accuses government of ‘eugenics’

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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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UN confirms that UK government’s treaty violations were both grave AND systematic

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B y John Pring Disability News Service June 29th 2017 The United Nations (UN) committee that found the UK government

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Shock after inquest ignores ‘fitness for work’ and jobcentre concerns

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By John Pring Disability News Service 22nd June 2017 A coroner has declined to explain why he failed to take

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

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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: #SNP calls on next government to follow Scotland’s lead on benefits

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The SNP has called on the next UK government to follow Scotland’s lead in protecting disabled people from social security

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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

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“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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Shock as Universal Credit rules treat sick as ‘fit for all work-related activity’ – against GPs explicit orders

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By John Pring Disability News Service Thursday 25 May 2017 Activists ‘horrified’ by universal credit rules forcing sick claimants into

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Voting Tory in #GE17 is a vote to kill people like me, and you need to know why

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By Blogger a Disabled Activist Fiona Robertson April 21st 2017 IT IS to their credit, and to our collective doom,

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Concern over UN’s ‘silence’ on benefit-related deaths

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  By John Pring Disability News Service 6th April 2017   Disabled activists fear that the UN committee examining the

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Activists bring ‘no more benefit deaths’ message to Westminster

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  By John Pring Disability News Service 9th March 2017   Disabled activists have explained why they took to the

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#BMJ #BritishMedicalJournal ‘#FirstDoNoHarm’: are #WCA #disabilityassessments associated with adverse trends in #MentalHealth? ~ assessments have had serious adverse consequences for mental health in England, which could outweigh any benefits that arise from moving people off disability benefits – A longitudinal ecological study – B Barr1, D Taylor-Robinson1, D Stuckler2, R Loopstra2, A Reeves2, M Whitehead1 Author affiliations

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Abstract Background In England between 2010 and 2013, just over one million recipients of the main out-of-work disability benefit had

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Sister launches judicial review claim in bid for sanctions death inquest

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  By John Pring Disability News Service 16th February 2017 The sister of a disabled man who died after being

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Questions over DWP’s further medical evidence pilot secrecy

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By John Pring Disability News Service 16th February 2017 The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is facing questions over

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