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Governments ‘overwhelmingly failed’ to protect disability rights during pandemic

By John Pring on 29th October 2020 Category: Human Rights

Governments ‘overwhelmingly failed’ to protect disability rights during pandemic
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Governments around the world – including the UK’s – have “overwhelmingly failed” to protect disabled people’s rights in responding to the global pandemic, according to the results of a major international survey. This has had “dire consequences”, with thousands of avoidable […]

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: DPOs from global south call for new beginning

By John Pring on 26th July 2018 Category: Human Rights

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 […]

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

By John Pring on 26th July 2018 Category: Politics

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 […]

Rival international summit aims to highlight government’s ‘global hypocrisy’

By John Pring on 5th July 2018 Category: Human Rights

Rival international summit aims to highlight government’s ‘global hypocrisy’
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Disabled activists and their organisations are to host their own international “solidarity summit” in a bid to highlight the hypocrisy of the government’s decision to co-host a major “global disability summit” in east London later this month. The solidarity summit will […]

Election leaves UN disability committee with 17 men and just one woman

By John Pring on 23rd June 2016 Category: Human Rights

Election leaves UN disability committee with 17 men and just one woman
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Disabled activists are calling on the UN to take action after elections to the 18-strong committee that oversees the implementation of its disability rights convention left it with just a single female member alongside 17 men. The committee on the rights […]

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