Global Disability Summit

Sarah Newton speaking in the House of Commons

August 23, 2018 0

Minister snubs DPOs – and ‘breaches UN convention’ – by refusing meeting

The minister for disabled people is refusing to meet a coalition of disabled people’s organisations, in an apparent breach of the UN disability convention. The coalition wrote to Sarah Newton yesterday (Wednesday) to express its “deep disappointment and concern” about her refusal to meet them to discuss the UK’s failure to implement the UN

Education

Simone Aspis with her arm around Michelle Daley

July 26, 2018 0

Global Disability Summit: Anger over Mordaunt’s bid to redefine inclusive education

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International development secretary Penny Mordaunt has been labelled a hypocrite and an embarrassment after attempting to redefine inclusive education at the international disability summit she was hosting in east London. Penny Mordaunt’s government was already facing criticism from across the UK disabled people’s movement for its “blatant attempt to divert attention from its own

Human Rights

Two women and two men sit in armchairs on a stage

July 26, 2018 0

Global Disability Summit: Disability Rights UK ‘betrayed movement’ with speech

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A national disabled people’s organisation is facing accusations that it “betrayed” the UK disability movement after its deputy chief executive failed to condemn the government’s record on rights at a major international gathering of disabled people. Sue Bott was sharing the stage with a senior government civil servant less than a year after the

Activism and Campaigning

Protesters outside a building with a banner saying UK disability rights abused by UK

July 26, 2018 0

Global Disability Summit: DPAC’s protest festival highlights government hypocrisy

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Disabled activists have held a “festival of resistance” outside an international disability rights event to highlight the “hypocrisy” of it being co-hosted by the UK government. Members of Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC) and allies were outside the Here East centre on the Olympic Park in the east London borough of Newham, as hundreds

Human Rights

A large version of the Charter for Change resting against a wall

July 26, 2018 0

Global Disability Summit: DPOs from global south call for new beginning

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Disabled people and their organisations from the global south have called for a “new beginning” in the way that the UN disability convention is implemented and monitored. They were speaking at the Global Disability Summit, a major international disability rights conference co-hosted by the UK government in east London this week. Speaking at the

Activism and Campaigning

Simone Aspis holding her thumb up, next to Michelle Daley at the Civil Society Forum

July 26, 2018 0

Global Disability Summit: Disabled activist praised for highlighting government attacks

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A leading disabled activist has exposed the UK’s record on disability rights in front of an audience of disabled people from across the global south who had been invited to take part in the government’s Global Disability Summit. Simone Aspis drew repeated loud applause from the audience at the Civil Society Forum as she

Politics

John McDonnell talking to a man and two women, one of whom is signing

July 26, 2018 0

Global Disability Summit: McDonnell says government hosting summit is ‘height of hypocrisy’

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Labour’s shadow chancellor has described the UK government’s decision to co-host a Global Disability Summit – less than a year after its record on disability rights was dismantled by the United Nations – as “the height of hypocrisy”. John McDonnell, a long-standing supporter of the disabled people’s anti-cuts movement, was speaking to Disability News

Politics

President Moreno speaking at a podium at the Global Disability Summit

July 26, 2018 0

Global Disability Summit: Disabled president’s rousing defence of social model

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The disabled president of Ecuador has given a stirring speech in praise of the social model of disability, at a summit co-hosted in east London by the UK government. President Lenin Moreno was one of the key-note speakers at the conference on the Olympic Park, which was hosted by the UK government, the International

Human Rights

Ukur Yatani Kanacho speaking at a podium at the Global Disability Summit

July 26, 2018 0

Global Disability Summit: Mordaunt defends co-host Kenya despite its gay rights record

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International development secretary Penny Mordaunt has defended the decision to co-host a major international summit on disability rights with Kenya, a country where it is illegal to be gay. The UK government was co-hosting the Global Disability Summit in east London this week with Kenya and the International Disability Alliance, with Ukur Yatani Kanacho,

Activism and Campaigning

Feliza Ali Ramos and Alex Marcelo Vazquez Bracamonte hold a Bolivian flag with another disabled woman

July 26, 2018 0

Global Disability Summit: Rival summit hears of international fight against oppression

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Representatives of national disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) in Bolivia, Greece, Malaysia and Uganda have described to UK activists how they have fought oppression and discrimination in their own countries. They were speaking at an International Deaf and Disabled People’s Solidarity Summit in east London, organised by Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC) to highlight the

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