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

By John Pring on 26th July 2018 Category: Activism and Campaigning

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 […]

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

By John Pring on 26th July 2018 Category: Politics

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 […]

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

By John Pring on 26th July 2018 Category: Activism and Campaigning

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 […]

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