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Watchdog’s barrister calls for legal right to independent living

By John Pring on 28th June 2018 Category: Independent Living

Watchdog’s barrister calls for legal right to independent living
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Legal advice commissioned by the equality and human rights watchdog has called for disabled people to have a legal right to independent living. The barrister was asked by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) last year to examine if there […]

UK is going backwards on independent living, says UN committee

By John Pring on 7th September 2017 Category: Human Rights

UK is going backwards on independent living, says UN committee
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A UN committee has told the UK government to make more than 80 improvements to the ways its laws and policies affect disabled people’s human rights. In its “concluding observations” on the progress the UK has made in implementing the UN […]

UN demands annual UK progress report on correcting ‘grave and systematic violations’

By John Pring on 7th September 2017 Category: Human Rights

UN demands annual UK progress report on correcting ‘grave and systematic violations’
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A UN committee has told the UK government to produce an annual progress report on how it is implementing the recommendations of a damning inquiry that found it guilty of “grave and systematic violations” of key parts of the disability convention. […]

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