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Government blanks UN’s call to assess overall impact of cuts… again

By John Pring on 5th January 2023 Category: Human Rights

The government is ignoring a call from disabled human rights experts from the UN to assess the overall impact of cuts and reforms to disabled people’s support, six years after being told to do so in a ground-breaking report. The UN […]

UK wants to promote its disability policies to rest of the world, says Mordaunt

By John Pring on 19th October 2017 Category: Human Rights

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The minister for disabled people has dismissed a damning UN report on her government’s disability rights record, arguing that the rest of the world should instead be learning from the UK’s policies. Penny Mordaunt was speaking weeks after the UN’s committee […]

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