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Independent Living

September 6, 2018 0

Anger over government’s ‘pathetic’ election access report

The government’s response to a consultation on how to make voting more accessible to disabled people has sparked anger among disabled campaigners, after it failed to offer a single new measure to improve access. One disabled campaigner branded the government’s report “pathetic” while another said the failure to act had made him “really angry”.

Activism and Campaigning

Penny Mordaunt speaking at a podium at the Global Disability Summit

September 6, 2018 0

Government ‘discriminated against DPOs’ in awarding £29m development programme

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The equality watchdog is examining claims that the government has discriminated against UK disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) by excluding them from the delivery of a new £29 million international development programme. The Department for International Development (DFID) has awarded the contract to a consortium of charities and other organisations led by the UK-based disability

Human Rights

Two women and two men sit in armchairs on a stage

July 26, 2018 0

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 stage with a senior government civil servant less than a year after the

Human Rights

An overhead view of the delegates in the chamber in Geneva

July 5, 2018 0

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 also be held in east London, on Sunday 22 July, two days before

Activism and Campaigning

A man points at a detail of a reproduction of the mural, watched by two men and two women

July 5, 2018 0

Kamil Ahmad: Anger over review’s failure to expose systemic flaws that led to murder

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The brother of a disabled asylum-seeker who was brutally murdered by a racist neighbour has joined disabled activists in criticising a “safeguarding review” for failing to expose the “catalogue of injustice” he faced in the years leading to his death. They spoke out during a series of events in Bristol that were held to

Activism and Campaigning

A wheelchair-user holds a megaphone at the front of a group of people marching along a road

July 5, 2018 0

Kamil Ahmad: Campaigners demand ‘fundamental change’ to systems that led to murders

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Disabled asylum-seekers and activists have come together to seek fundamental changes to the systems and agencies that have been blamed for the brutal murders of two disabled refugees in the same city. Disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) and groups working with asylum-seekers in Bristol organised a series of events on 29 June to mark the

Benefits and Poverty

Tracey Lazard sitting behind a table and holding a microphone

February 15, 2018 0

Benefit assessment report welcomed, but concern over ‘preventable harm’ failings

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Disabled campaigners have welcomed a report by MPs on disability benefit assessments, which they say highlights “serious multiple failures”, but many believe it should have done more to highlight the serious “preventable harm” caused by the system. The report by the Commons work and pensions committee concludes that there is a “pervasive culture of

Independent Living

Mark Harrison holding a microphone for another speaker

November 30, 2017 0

Equality watchdog seeks legal advice on possible right to independent living

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The equality watchdog has asked a barrister to examine whether there needs to be a legal right to independent living for disabled people, because of concerns that their rights to choice and control over their lives is being “eroded”. The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has asked the lawyer to assess how independent

Independent Living

Mark Williams speaking into a microphone held by Ellen Clifford

November 30, 2017 0

Conference plans fightback against independent living ‘catastrophe’

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Disabled campaigners have gathered at a conference to help develop plans for a fightback against the independent living “catastrophe” facing users of support services across the country. The Independent Living Campaign Conference heard that disabled people are now designing “a new vision” for independent living that is user-led and based on rights and the

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