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August 9, 2018 0

UN’s ‘human catastrophe’ rights expert to deliver high-profile UK lecture

The UN expert who told the government that its cuts to disabled people’s support had caused a “human catastrophe” is to visit the UK this autumn to deliver a high-profile lecture on disability rights. Theresia Degener, the professor of law and disability studies who chairs the UN committee on the rights of persons with

Arts, Culture and Sport

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March 15, 2018 0

Stephen Hawking: Scientist, role model and defender of rights

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Tributes have been paid to Stephen Hawking, the world-renowned physicist and “disability icon” who was seen by many disabled people as a hugely-important role model, who died this week. Among the disabled people who highlighted the importance of his achievements was the political journalist Dr Frances Ryan, who said on Twitter: “Growing up disabled

Education

May 5, 2016

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New ‘hub’ means pioneering university will join world leaders in disability law

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The University of Leeds is set to become a world leader in disability law, after setting up a ground-breaking new “hub” of some of the UK’s leading legal scholars. The Disability Law Hub boasts expertise across equality, social care, mental health, mental capacity and international disability rights law, as well as in the relationship

Activism and Campaigning

April 28, 2016

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‘Enforcement is key on Equality Act’

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Lawyers campaigners, peers and academics have spoken of how disabled people can find it almost impossible to enforce their rights to equality, six years after the introduction of the Equality Act. They were speaking at a seminar in London – organised by the Centre for Disability Studies at the University of Leeds, the legal

Politics

April 28, 2016

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Disabled people are ‘stronger and safer’ in EU, say leading academics

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Leaving the European Union (EU) would put at risk significant improvements that have been made to the lives of disabled people over the last 15 years, according to three of the country’s leading academics working in the disability rights field. In the strongest statement yet on why remaining in the EU would be the

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UN’s ‘human catastrophe’ rights expert to deliver high-profile UK lecture

Stephen Hawking: Scientist, role model and defender of rights

New ‘hub’ means pioneering university will join world leaders in disability law

‘Enforcement is key on Equality Act’

Disabled people are ‘stronger and safer’ in EU, say leading academics