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EHRC refuses to apologise over ‘shameful’ long Covid blunder

By John Pring on 12th May 2022 Category: Activism and Campaigning

EHRC refuses to apologise over ‘shameful’ long Covid blunder
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The equality watchdog has again refused to apologise for failing disabled people, after suggesting publicly that people experiencing symptoms of long Covid should not be entitled to protection from the Equality Act. The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) sparked outrage […]

Coronavirus: Peer calls for an end to use of ‘vulnerable’ to describe disabled people

By John Pring on 25th June 2020 Category: Politics

Coronavirus: Peer calls for an end to use of ‘vulnerable’ to describe disabled people
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A leading disabled campaigner and crossbench peer has called for an end to the use of the word “vulnerable” to describe disabled people. Baroness [Jane] Campbell said the term had been used repeatedly to describe disabled people during the “worst times” […]

DWP sanctions system discriminated against disabled people for a decade, figures show

By John Pring on 25th July 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP sanctions system discriminated against disabled people for a decade, figures show
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The government’s mainstream benefit sanctions regime has been discriminating against disabled people throughout nearly the whole of the last decade, according to new figures secured by Disability News Service (DNS). The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) figures, obtained through a […]

UN expert tells of disabled people’s ‘horrendous’ evidence on poverty

By John Pring on 15th November 2018 Category: Human Rights

UN expert tells of disabled people’s ‘horrendous’ evidence on poverty
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The UN expert investigating the government’s record on eradicating poverty has described how he has heard “pretty horrendous” evidence from disabled people while conducting a 12-day factfinding visit to the UK. Professor Philip Alston, the UN’s special rapporteur on extreme poverty […]

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