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Human Rights

Penny Mordaunt speaking in the House of Commons

October 19, 2017 0

UK wants to promote its disability policies to rest of the world, says Mordaunt

The minister for disabled people has dismissed a damning UN report on her government’s disability rights record, arguing that the rest of the world should instead be learning from the UK’s policies. Penny Mordaunt was speaking weeks after the UN’s committee on the rights of persons with disabilities said the government’s social protection policies

Politics

Jared O'Mara, flanked by a woman and a man, in front of a row of houses

July 6, 2017 0

New disabled MP accuses government of ‘eugenics’

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A newly-elected disabled MP has accused the Conservative government of introducing policies inspired by “eugenics” in the hope that disabled people will “suffer and die”. Labour’s Jared O’Mara spoke out just weeks after beating former deputy prime minister Nick Clegg to win the Sheffield Hallam seat and become one of just a handful of

Politics

A man speaks in the House of Lords, watched by a man and woman

June 29, 2017 0

Crossbench disabled peer calls for an end to austerity, and the misery it has caused

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A crossbench disabled peer has called for an end to government-led austerity and the “personal misery” it has caused. Lord [Colin] Low, speaking in the Lords debate on last week’s Queen’s speech, said he believed the result of the general election showed voters were “no longer willing to buy neoliberal austerity”. He told peers

Crime

The words The Violence of Austerity on a white background, with a cut in the middle

May 18, 2017

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Disabled people ‘forced into dangerous workfare that breaches health and safety laws’

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Disabled people are being subjected to dangerous violations of health and safety laws after being forced to take part in government workfare programmes, according to new research published this week. The analysis of first-hand accounts of benefit claimants forced into unpaid work by the Department for Work and Pensions is one of 24 short

Activism and Campaigning

Mark Lynes with other activists behind him

October 6, 2016

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Thousands hear call to free disabled people ‘imprisoned in their homes by austerity’

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Disabled people have explained why they joined thousands of other activists on a march through the streets of Birmingham to protest about the failure of Tory austerity policies. The march took place as the Conservatives held their annual conference in the city, almost six years to the day since huge anti-austerity protests greeted the

Activism and Campaigning

May 6, 2015

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ELECTION 2015: Artist will broadcast her 650 austerity stories on eve of election

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In the last hours before election day, a disabled artist-activist will highlight the impact of government cuts, with a six-hour performance in which the stories of 650 people at austerity’s “sharp end” will be broadcast over the internet. The performance will take place tonight (Wednesday) at low tide on the foreshore of Ladye Bay,

Arts, Culture and Sport

March 27, 2015

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Crow’s mud figures will make visible the human cost of austerity

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A disabled artist-activist is about to begin sculpting 650 figures out of river mud, in a bid to “make visible the human cost of austerity” in the run-up to the general election. Liz Crow’s We Are Figures project will see her create one figure for every UK constituency, each one representing “an individual at

Benefits and Poverty

December 19, 2014 0

Recession and austerity ‘have provided a deadly mixture’

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The combination of the recession and the coalition’s austerity programme is likely to have been responsible for hundreds of suicides in England, a researcher at Oxford University has suggested. Dr Aaron Reeves, a sociologist at Oxford University and part of a group of researchers investigating the effects of recession and austerity, told a seminar

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