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Government plans for more virtual court hearings ‘will lead to widespread injustice’

By John Pring on 13th January 2022 Category: Human Rights

Government plans for more virtual court hearings ‘will lead to widespread injustice’
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Government plans to expand the number of trials and other criminal hearings carried out remotely through video and telephone links will expose disabled defendants to widespread discrimination and injustice, campaigners have warned. Disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) and criminal justice campaigners said […]

Report calls for ‘radical and ambitious’ disability strategy

By John Pring on 28th January 2021 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Report calls for ‘radical and ambitious’ disability strategy
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A new report, based on the views of hundreds of disabled people and organisations, has called on the government to produce a national disability strategy that is “radical and ambitious”. The report by Disability Rights UK (PDF) follows a three-month engagement […]

Coronavirus: Academics call for urgent inquiry into deaths

By John Pring on 9th July 2020 Category: Human Rights

Coronavirus: Academics call for urgent inquiry into deaths
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A group of academics have called on the government to launch an immediate inquiry into why so many disabled people have died during the COVID-19 pandemic. The call came in a new report by Oxford University’s Disability Law and Policy Project […]

Second charity backs Justice for Jodey following snub by 12 disability organisations

By John Pring on 18th July 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Second charity backs Justice for Jodey following snub by 12 disability organisations
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A second national disability charity has joined Mind in backing a petition that calls for an independent inquiry into links between Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) failings and the deaths of disabled benefit claimants. Disability Rights UK (DR UK) and […]

Job losses at Disability Rights UK as user-led funding squeeze tightens

By John Pring on 7th March 2019 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Job losses at Disability Rights UK as user-led funding squeeze tightens
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A national disabled people’s organisation has had to make cuts of nearly 20 per cent to its staff, in a further sign of the financial difficulties facing many user-led organisations across the country. Disability Rights UK (DR UK) is making four […]

Global Disability Summit: Disability Rights UK ‘betrayed movement’ with speech

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

Global Disability Summit: Disability Rights UK ‘betrayed movement’ with speech
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A national disabled people’s organisation is facing accusations that it “betrayed” the UK disability movement after its deputy chief executive failed to condemn the government’s record on rights at a major international gathering of disabled people. Sue Bott was sharing the […]

Concern over government’s four-year delay on PIP ‘safety’

By John Pring on 9th November 2017 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Concern over government’s four-year delay on PIP ‘safety’
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Campaigners have asked why it took the government four years – and a tribunal judgement – to ensure that eligibility for a disability benefit takes proper account of whether a disabled person can carry out certain activities safely. Penny Mordaunt, the […]

DR UK’s new boss pledges better links with other DPOs and grassroots groups

By John Pring on 20th July 2017 Category: Human Rights

DR UK’s new boss pledges better links with other DPOs and grassroots groups
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The new boss of Disability Rights UK (DR UK) has pledged to do more to involve young disabled people in the organisation’s work, and improve its relationships with other disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) and grassroots campaigning groups. Kamran Mallick (pictured) took […]

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