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Theresia Degener sits, talking, behind a name plate saying T Degener

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

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An overhead view of the delegates in the chamber in Geneva

July 5, 2018 0

Rival international summit aims to highlight government’s ‘global hypocrisy’

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Disabled activists and their organisations are to host their own international “solidarity summit” in a bid to highlight the hypocrisy of the government’s decision to co-host a major “global disability summit” in east London later this month. The solidarity summit will also be held in east London, on Sunday 22 July, two days before

Politics

Marsha de Cordova speaking in parliament

May 31, 2018 0

TUC Disabled Workers’ Conference: Government ‘has created hostile environment for disabled people’

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The government has created a “hostile environment” for disabled people just as it has for members of the Windrush generation, Labour’s shadow minister for disabled people has told trade unionists. Marsha de Cordova (pictured) described herself as a “grand-daughter of the Windrush generation” as she addressed the annual TUC Disabled Workers’ Conference in Bournemouth.

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Delegates at the disabled workers' conference

May 31, 2018 0

TUC Disabled Workers’ Conference: UN convention ‘must become part of UK law’

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Disabled trade unionists have called on the TUC and unions across the country to campaign for the UN disability convention to be incorporated into UK law. Disabled members of 22 unions, who were at the annual TUC Disabled Workers’ Conference in Bournemouth (pictured), voted unanimously for a motion calling for a national campaign on

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Liberal Democrats delegates watching a speaker on the stage at their annual conference

September 21, 2017 0

Lib Dem conference: Party votes to bring UN disability convention into UK law

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The Liberal Democrats have voted to incorporate the UN disability convention into UK law. Party members overwhelmingly passed an emergency motion that noted how the UK government was accused last month by a UN committee of causing a “human catastrophe” by cutting disabled people’s support. David Buxton, the Deaf party activist who proposed the

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September 7, 2017 0

DPOs consider boycott of government engagement over ‘misrepresentation’ at UN

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Disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) are to consider boycotting any engagement with the UK government, after it misrepresented their views to a UN committee of human rights experts. The UN committee on the rights of persons with disabilities (CRPD) last week delivered a report on the UK government which included more than 80 recommendations for

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Stig Langvad sits with headphones on in UN debating chamber

September 7, 2017 0

UK is going backwards on independent living, says UN committee

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A UN committee has told the UK government to make more than 80 improvements to the ways its laws and policies affect disabled people’s human rights. In its “concluding observations” on the progress the UK has made in implementing the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD), the committee raised concerns

Human Rights

September 7, 2017 0

UN demands annual UK progress report on correcting ‘grave and systematic violations’

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A UN committee has told the UK government to produce an annual progress report on how it is implementing the recommendations of a damning inquiry that found it guilty of “grave and systematic violations” of key parts of the disability convention. The committee of disabled human rights experts concluded last November that the government

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Some candles next to part of a DPAC banner

November 17, 2016

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McDonnell pledges Labour will force government to debate UN ‘rights violations’ report

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Labour’s shadow chancellor has promised that the government will be dragged before MPs to explain why it was found guilty of “grave or systematic violations” of disabled people’s human rights by the United Nations. John McDonnell told Disability News Service (DNS) last night (Wednesday) that Labour would ensure there was a debate about the

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