The new minister for disabled people has been ridiculed for claiming the government has a record of providing “global leadership on disability inclusion”, six years after it was found guilty of “grave” and “systematic” violations of the UN disability convention. Tom […]
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Disabled activists will push for changes to draft mental health bill that ‘breaches rights’
Government ‘pauses’ disability policies over ‘unlawful’ national strategy
Minister defends use of misleading jobs figures at UN
‘Significant progress’ needed on disability rights in Wales, says report for UN committee
UN to hear how disabled people feel ‘expendable’ after rights regression since 2017
Progress on UN rights convention ‘has regressed and stagnated across UK’
Government’s ‘laughable’ and misleading UN update on ‘grave and systematic violations’
Disability arts organisation’s call for new cultural rights
‘Deeply dangerous’ WeThe15 campaign exposed by failure to criticise COP26
The failure of international organisations at the heart of a major new disability rights campaign to criticise governments for side-lining disabled people in the Glasgow climate change agreement has exposed their efforts as “deeply dangerous”, say activists. International Disability Alliance (IDA) […]