Human Rights Act

Human Rights

FRances Crook and Toby Harris giving evidence to the committee

February 23, 2017

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Ministers ‘should be held accountable for huge rise in prison suicides’

Ministers should be held accountable for the “extraordinary” rise in self-harm in prisons, including nearly 120 suicides last year, MPs and peers have been told. Members of the joint committee on human rights, who were hearing evidence from four prison reform experts, were told that 119 prisoners took their own lives in 2016, an

Benefits and Poverty

November 3, 2016

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Coroner asked to explain failure to hold inquest into benefit sanctions death

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Lawyers for the sister of a disabled man who died after his benefits were sanctioned have asked a coroner to explain why there was no inquest into his death. Gill Thompson has paid for the legal action through crowd-funding, raising more than £17, 000 in a bid to secure answers and change the system

Activism and Campaigning

Disabled people in front of the Royal Courts of Justice, with a banner for Inclusion London

August 25, 2016

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Justice project will help DPOs tackle discrimination through the courts

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A new user-led project will help disabled people in London use the law to fight for their independent living rights, and combat the discrimination they face from providers of goods and services. Inclusion London’s Disability Justice Project will support disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) across the capital to make better use of the Social Care

Human Rights

Delegates sitting in the main conference arena

October 2, 2015

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Labour conference: Tory bill of rights ‘would water down Human Rights Act’

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The under-threat Human Rights Act could be used to halt the scandal of disabled people who have died after being put through the government’s much-criticised “fitness for work” test regime, according to Labour’s new shadow minister for disabled people. Debbie Abrahams spoke out on the importance of the act as she pledged to fight

Politics

Outside view of the Houses of Parliament

May 29, 2015

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Queen’s speech ‘suggests the worst is yet to come’

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Disabled people should prepare themselves for more cuts and further attacks on their rights over the next five years disabled campaigners have warned in the wake of this week’s Queen’s speech. The speech, which laid out plans for what the prime minister called a “one nation government”, confirmed his party’s pledge to introduce further

Politics

David Cameron talking to a woman in a workshop

April 24, 2015

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ELECTION 2015: Tories refuse to say which human rights they will dump

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The Conservative party are refusing to say which vital protections they would scrap if they win the election and abolish the Human Rights Act (HRA). The party’s manifesto says a Conservative government would replace the act – introduced by a Labour government in 1998 – with a British bill of rights, which it claims

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Ministers ‘should be held accountable for huge rise in prison suicides’

Coroner asked to explain failure to hold inquest into benefit sanctions death

Justice project will help DPOs tackle discrimination through the courts

Labour conference: Tory bill of rights ‘would water down Human Rights Act’

Queen’s speech ‘suggests the worst is yet to come’

ELECTION 2015: Tories refuse to say which human rights they will dump