Reclaiming Our Futures Alliance

Tapestry featuring rights slogans such as Disabled People Fight Back and Nothing About Us Without Us

September 14, 2017 0

Summit meeting will aim to bring movement together on independent living

Activists are hoping that a national disabled people’s “summit” will bring disabled people, their organisations and unions together to fight back against the repeated attacks on their right to independent living. Plans for the day-long summit were launched at a fringe meeting at the annual TUC Congress in Brighton this week. Mandy Hudson, who

Human Rights

July 13, 2017 0

Government’s UN response ‘exposes failings on disability convention’

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The government has ignored key evidence that demonstrates widespread breaches of the UN disability convention, according to disabled people’s grassroots groups and organisations that are working together to expose its failings. They spoke out after the government submitted its response to concerns raised earlier this year by a UN committee, which described where it

Human Rights

July 21, 2016

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Delayed UN examination of UK government ‘will take place next year’

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Disabled people’s organisations and grassroots groups are set to call on disabled people across England to provide the evidence they need to prepare a “hard-hitting” report on the government’s failure to implement the UN disability convention. The Reclaiming Our Futures Alliance (ROFA) has announced that it will put together a “shadow report” to submit

Activism and Campaigning

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July 21, 2016

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ROFA’s conference hears call to build a stronger alliance

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A campaigning alliance has called for disabled people and their organisations to join its fight to use the UN disability convention to defend attacks on their rights by the UK government. The Reclaiming Our Futures Alliance (ROFA) was holding its third national conference in the five years since it was founded by a small

Activism and Campaigning

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April 14, 2016

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ROFA’s conference call to DPOs is next step towards international influence

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A national conference is set to provide disabled people and their organisations across England with an opportunity to come together to discuss key disability rights issues, share their campaigning successes, and secure a collective voice on the international stage. The Reclaiming Our Futures Alliance (ROFA) is set to take a sizeable step forward at

Activism and Campaigning

Protester in wheelchair holding sign saying 'The needy, paying for the sins of the greedy'

May 6, 2015

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ELECTION 2015: DPOs announce ‘17 policies to reclaim our futures’

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Four leading disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) have issued a list of 17 policies they want the next government to implement in its first 100 days. Equal Lives, Inclusion London, The Alliance for Inclusive Education and Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC), published the list to help campaigners in the days leading up to tomorrow’s general

Benefits and Poverty

November 28, 2014 0

Austerity testimony ‘shows the need to get the vote out’

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A new user-led campaign and report aim to highlight the experiences of disabled people hit by the government’s welfare reforms, and encourage them to vote at next year’s general election. From Cuts… To Resistance, a report by the Reclaiming Our Futures Alliance (ROFA), includes a string of testimonies from disabled people on the impact

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Summit meeting will aim to bring movement together on independent living

Government’s UN response ‘exposes failings on disability convention’

Delayed UN examination of UK government ‘will take place next year’

ROFA’s conference hears call to build a stronger alliance

ROFA’s conference call to DPOs is next step towards international influence

ELECTION 2015: DPOs announce ‘17 policies to reclaim our futures’

Austerity testimony ‘shows the need to get the vote out’