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Sisters of Frida

Disabled women’s collective searches for more of Frida’s sisters

By John Pring on 25th January 2024 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Disabled women’s collective searches for more of Frida’s sisters
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A disabled women’s collective is looking to recruit fresh blood to help it spread the intersectional feminist values that lie at the heart of its groundbreaking work, in what it says is a “pivotal moment” in its history. For the first […]

Parliamentary meeting demands end to segregation and abuse of young disabled people

By John Pring on 14th December 2023 Category: Human Rights

Parliamentary meeting demands end to segregation and abuse of young disabled people
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Disabled activists and allies came together in parliament this week to call for an end to the degrading treatment, dehumanisation and even torture that young disabled people are subjected to in institutional care settings. Members of the End Torture of Disabled […]

Mixed response from disabled activists to Heidi Crowter abortion case ruling

By John Pring on 30th September 2021 Category: Human Rights

Mixed response from disabled activists to Heidi Crowter abortion case ruling
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Disabled campaigners have given contrasting responses to a court’s high-profile ruling on whether abortion laws are discriminatory. The high court dismissed a legal challenge that argued that it was “morally and ethically wrong” and discriminatory to allow disabled fetuses to be […]

Pandemic failings left disabled women feeling ‘abandoned, unworthy and disposable’

By John Pring on 27th May 2021 Category: Independent Living

Pandemic failings left disabled women feeling ‘abandoned, unworthy and disposable’
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Disabled women were made to feel abandoned, unworthy and disposable by the government’s failure to take their lives into consideration when making decisions and drawing up national policies during the pandemic, according to a new report. The report found that the […]

Black disabled people ‘must protest at invisibility and discrimination’

By John Pring on 18th June 2020 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Black disabled people ‘must protest at invisibility and discrimination’
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Black disabled people must organise a protest to draw attention to their continuing “invisibility” and the multi-layered discrimination they face, according to a leading disabled black activist. Julie Jaye Charles spoke out this week in the wake of mass protests across […]

Four key changes to domestic violence bill could make ‘crucial difference’

By John Pring on 4th June 2020 Category: Crime

Four key changes to domestic violence bill could make ‘crucial difference’
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Campaigners are pushing the government to make key changes to its domestic violence bill so that it provides disabled people with “crucial” new protections from abusive carers and care workers, and new social security rights for survivors of abuse. They are […]

Coronavirus: Disabled women ‘facing greater risk of abuse and mental distress’

By John Pring on 14th May 2020 Category: Human Rights

Coronavirus: Disabled women ‘facing greater risk of abuse and mental distress’
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Disabled women have described how the COVID-19 crisis has forced them to increase their dependence on others and has placed them more at risk of domestic abuse, while the need for social isolation has increased their levels of mental distress. Their […]

ROFA conference sees calls for charities to make way for DPOs

By John Pring on 23rd April 2020 Category: Activism and Campaigning

ROFA conference sees calls for charities to make way for DPOs
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Disabled people’s organisations have called on charities that are not user-led to “move over and stop taking our space”. The calls came during the Reclaiming Our Futures Alliance (ROFA) national conference, which had been due to take place in Manchester, but […]

ROFA’s draft manifesto calls for end to austerity and a right to independent living

By John Pring on 24th October 2019 Category: Activism and Campaigning

ROFA’s draft manifesto calls for end to austerity and a right to independent living
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Political parties are set to be told to promise an end to austerity, a legal right to independent living and an immediate end to universal credit, if they want disabled people’s support at the next general election. The Reclaiming Our Futures […]

Labour’s pledge to scrap universal credit ‘is victory for years of activism’

By John Pring on 3rd October 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Labour’s pledge to scrap universal credit ‘is victory for years of activism’
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Disabled activists have welcomed Labour’s promise to scrap universal credit (UC) if it wins power at the next general election as a victory for years of campaigning. But they have warned the party that they still want to know how UC […]

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