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Government side-stepping UN examination ‘shows contempt for disabled people’

By John Pring on 17th August 2023 Category: Human Rights

Government side-stepping UN examination ‘shows contempt for disabled people’
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The UK government has been accused of showing contempt for disabled people after it refused to give evidence on its progress since being found guilty of “grave and systematic” violations of the UN’s disability convention seven years ago. The government has told […]

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

By John Pring on 17th August 2023 Category: Human Rights

EHRC report for UN on government’s rights violations ‘not fit for purpose’
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The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) is facing fresh accusations that it is failing to hold the UK government to account on disability rights, after a high-profile submission to a UN body was branded “not fit for purpose”. The commission […]

Disabled opponents of assisted suicide tell MPs of ‘high price’ of legalisation

By John Pring on 27th July 2023 Category: Human Rights

Disabled opponents of assisted suicide tell MPs of ‘high price’ of legalisation
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Four disabled people have given evidence to a parliamentary inquiry to try to fight back against the well-funded campaign that aims to push parliament towards unsafe plans to legalise assisted suicide. The four campaigners told MPs of their fears that legalisation […]

Survey suggests tens of thousands of disabled people failed to vote due to ID rules

By John Pring on 29th June 2023 Category: Human Rights

Survey suggests tens of thousands of disabled people failed to vote due to ID rules
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Tens of thousands of disabled people may have been deprived of their vote at May’s local elections in England because of the government’s new rules* on providing voter identification, a new report suggests. Data from polling stations shows that at least […]

Document shows NHS England apologised for backing harmful SIM scheme

By John Pring on 18th May 2023 Category: Human Rights

Document shows NHS England apologised for backing harmful SIM scheme
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NHS England has apologised – in a co-produced document it has refused to publish – for its serious failures over the widespread use of a mental health scheme that it admits was discriminatory, coercive and punitive. Senior NHS executives had secured […]

Daily road closure leaves disabled woman imprisoned in her home

By John Pring on 11th May 2023 Category: Human Rights

Daily road closure leaves disabled woman imprisoned in her home
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The closure of a road by a council has left a disabled woman imprisoned in her home and unable to attend vital health appointments, in the latest example of pedestrian-friendly policies that are failing to take access needs into account. Ann […]

Watchdog investigates possible failures at mental health hospital after 24 alleged rapes

By John Pring on 30th March 2023 Category: Human Rights

Watchdog investigates possible failures at mental health hospital after 24 alleged rapes
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The care watchdog is investigating possible safeguarding failures at an NHS trust after a documentary uncovered figures showing there were 24 alleged rapes and 18 alleged sexual offences in just three years at one of its mental health hospitals. The Care […]

Disabled activists raise concerns over MPs’ assisted suicide inquiry

By John Pring on 30th March 2023 Category: Human Rights

Disabled activists raise concerns over MPs’ assisted suicide inquiry
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Disabled activists have raised fears that they may not be asked to give evidence in public at a high-profile Commons inquiry into legalising assisted suicide. The health and social care committee began taking oral evidence this week, hearing from four peers […]

Activists accuse NHS England of ‘betrayal’ over StopSIM co-production

By John Pring on 16th March 2023 Category: Human Rights

Activists accuse NHS England of ‘betrayal’ over StopSIM co-production
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Disabled activists have accused NHS England of “betrayal” after it went back on its promise to publish a policy – developed with service-users – that would have put an end to a mental health scheme branded discriminatory, coercive and punitive.  Members […]

NHS England’s StopSIM ‘betrayal’ is ‘ticking time bomb’ on co-production

By John Pring on 16th March 2023 Category: Human Rights

NHS England’s StopSIM ‘betrayal’ is ‘ticking time bomb’ on co-production
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NHS England has been warned that its actions could “plunge co-production into crisis”, after it went back on a promise to publish a mental health policy that disabled campaigners had been working on for 15 months. Grassroots groups and disabled activists […]

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