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Campaigners are pushing the government to make key changes to its domestic violence bill so that it provides disabled people with “crucial” new protections from abusive carers and care workers, and new social security rights for survivors of abuse. They are […]
An autistic man who brought a legal case against a police force for discrimination, after it twice detained him, has had his claim settled out of court. Daniel Smith had challenged the policies of Devon and Cornwall police because he believed […]
Public bodies in Bristol are facing allegations of institutional disablism and racism, after the second case in four years in which a man has been convicted of the brutal murder of a disabled refugee. Friends say that Kamil Ahmad had repeatedly […]
Friends of a disabled Kurdish asylum-seeker have spoken of the institutionalised discrimination that they believe led to his murder at the hands of a racist neighbour. Kamil Ahmad wanted nothing more than a safe place that he could call home, after […]