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Disabled campaigners have raised concerns about the “worrying” and “disturbing” decision to give more than one million pounds of public lottery money to the sister charity of the main organisation lobbying for assisted suicide to be legalised. The disabled people’s organisation […]
Disabled activists have criticised the government’s policy of turning up unannounced at the home of social security claimants to check their benefit payments are correct. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) insists that such visits have been government policy for […]
A government minister has criticised the “intolerable” failure of the NHS and local authorities to remove people with learning difficulties from out-of-area assessment and treatment units and return them to their home areas. The Liberal Democrat care and support minister Norman […]
The Supreme Court has ruled against three legal challenges that would have relaxed the laws on assisted suicide, but the complicated series of judgments has done little to reassure disabled activists fighting the threat of new legislation. The three appeals were […]
More than 99 per cent of disabled people who use the Independent Living Fund (ILF) believe that it improves their ability to live independently, just as the government is preparing to abolish it. The coalition is planning to close ILF in […]
Experts commissioned by the equality watchdog have told Disability News Service (DNS) that it is possible to assess the overall impact of coalition spending cuts on disabled people, despite ministers repeatedly claiming such a project would be impossible. Disabled activists and […]
Disabled campaigners say they have uncovered evidence that the German government deliberately sabotaged efforts to secure justice for thalidomide survivors in the late 1960s and early 1970s. They also say the German government knew the drug was associated with birth defects, […]
The Tory peer who heads the equality watchdog’s disability committee has faced tough questions over whether the hostile rhetoric of his party’s ministers has helped to fuel hate crime. Lord [Chris] Holmes, a commissioner with the Equality and Human Rights Commission, […]
Eight thalidomide survivors who have waited more than 50 years for justice have launched a legal action against the companies that manufactured and distributed the drug. Some of the eight were previously denied compensation because they could not prove their impairments […]
More disabled people will be able to make accessible copies of books, films and music, thanks to reforms to copyright law that came into force this week. The new exemptions to copyright for those making accessible format versions of material for […]