Simone Aspis

Human Rights

September 6, 2018 0

Bill on mental capacity and liberty deprivation ‘will take disability rights backwards’

Disabled campaigners say the government must delay a controversial bill they believe would make it easier to restrict the freedom of people in care settings who lack capacity to make their own decisions. Peers yesterday (Wednesday) began debating the committee stage of the mental capacity (amendment) bill, legislation that will affect an estimated 300,000

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

Activism and Campaigning

Simone Aspis holding her thumb up, next to Michelle Daley at the Civil Society Forum

July 26, 2018 0

Global Disability Summit: Disabled activist praised for highlighting government attacks

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A leading disabled activist has exposed the UK’s record on disability rights in front of an audience of disabled people from across the global south who had been invited to take part in the government’s Global Disability Summit. Simone Aspis drew repeated loud applause from the audience at the Civil Society Forum as she

Human Rights

August 18, 2016

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New pre-natal testing technique is ‘further NHS step towards eugenics’

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Government plans to introduce a new safer form of pre-natal testing for Down’s syndrome and other conditions send a message to disabled people that they are “better off being dead than being born”, according to a leading activist. The Department of Health (DH) is believed to be poised to give the go-ahead to non-invasive

Human Rights

Section of cover of EHRC consultation document

April 28, 2016

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Government set to slash equality watchdog’s budget… again

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The government has told the equality watchdog that it plans to slash its budget again, even though the financial year has already started. The planned cuts only emerged after the Government Equalities Office (GEO) told Disability News Service (DNS) that it was still “in the process of agreeing budgets” with the Equality and Human

Activism and Campaigning

DPAC protesters outside Westminster Abbey

May 1, 2015

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DPAC defends its left-wing stance, and anti-hate campaigns

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The grassroots anti-austerity group Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC) has strongly defended its policy of backing campaigns that do not focus solely on fighting for disabled people’s fundamental rights and inclusion. DPAC has faced criticism from a leading disabled activist and member, who believes the group has aligned itself too closely with left-wing causes

Education

March 13, 2015

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Government backtracks again on cuts to student support

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The government has announced a further delay to its proposals to restrict the funding that helps disabled students attend university, days after two young people won permission to challenge its plans in the courts. Ministers in the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) announced this week that changes relating to “accommodation, peripherals and

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Bill on mental capacity and liberty deprivation ‘will take disability rights backwards’

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

Global Disability Summit: Disabled activist praised for highlighting government attacks

New pre-natal testing technique is ‘further NHS step towards eugenics’

Government set to slash equality watchdog’s budget… again

DPAC defends its left-wing stance, and anti-hate campaigns

Government backtracks again on cuts to student support