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Disabled activists in the UK have backed a US campaign that will call on actor and film-maker George Clooney to step away from a movie adaptation of a memoir that treats disability as a “fate worse than death”. In Love is […]
Disabled people across the country have backed the chief executive of a disability organisation after she turned down an MBE because of how successive governments have “demonised, dehumanised and scapegoated” disabled people. Tressa Burke, founding chief executive of the disabled people’s […]
A report by the Covid inquiry into political decision-making during the pandemic proves that the “horrific” and disproportionate death toll among disabled people was not inevitable but the result of treating them as an “afterthought”, say campaigners. Four national disabled people’s […]
The Labour government’s attack on disabled people’s support has led to a “massive resurgence” in the disabled people’s movement in the last year, a protest outside the party’s annual conference has heard. Monday’s protest highlighted Labour’s failure to stop the “slow […]
Disabled people of colour say last weekend’s “horrific” far-right protest in London has left them feeling terrified and unsafe. Saturday’s protest was supposedly aimed at “free speech” but most of those who attended appeared to be there to complain about immigration, […]
Disabled people’s organisations have expressed shock and alarm at the disability minister’s “completely unacceptable” decision to impose gagging orders on members of his new “independent” advisory panel. The panel, led by disabled campaigner Zara Todd, will advise Sir Stephen Timms and […]
For more than 16 years, Disability News Service has broken important stories about the discrimination disabled people face every day across the UK. Now DNS is looking for new subscribers to help fund its work holding the new Labour government to […]
Disabled campaigners betrayed by a solicitor who took many high-profile cases of disability discrimination have spoken of the significant harm he caused, after he was finally struck off by a tribunal. For years, Chris Fry (pictured), from Sheffield, took on discrimination […]
Labour MPs were given their final warning by disabled activists at a sweltering rally outside parliament on Monday that, if they vote for cuts to disability benefits, the “gloves will be off”. Ellen Clifford, one of the key organisers of the […]
Disabled people’s lives will be increasingly in danger because of MPs’ failure to understand the risks posed by the assisted dying bill, devastated activists warned on Friday after the legislation was approved by the House of Commons. Disabled activists had started […]