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Outrage over ‘horrifying’ and ‘miserable’ plans to scrap Human Rights Act

By John Pring on May 19, 2016 Category: Human Rights

A string of user-led organisations have warned that the government’s “horrifying” plans to scrap the Human Rights Act and replace it with a British bill of rights will lead to a loss of vital legal protection for disabled people. Proposals to […]

Labour conference: Tory bill of rights ‘would water down Human Rights Act’

By John Pring on October 2, 2015 Category: Human Rights

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The under-threat Human Rights Act could be used to halt the scandal of disabled people who have died after being put through the government’s much-criticised “fitness for work” test regime, according to Labour’s new shadow minister for disabled people. Debbie Abrahams […]

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