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Election hustings candidates invent disability policies, days before general election

By John Pring on 27th June 2024 Category: Politics

Election hustings candidates invent disability policies, days before general election
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A series of election candidates have been caught inventing party policy in front of an audience of disabled people, at a disability hustings event held just days before the general election. The event in Bristol was organised by five disabled people’s […]

Labour manifesto drops key disability rights pledges

By John Pring on 20th June 2024 Category: Politics

Labour manifesto drops key disability rights pledges
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Labour has published an election manifesto that has been shorn of key promises the party made on disability rights last autumn. The manifesto also confirms the party’s continuing refusal to promise an end to ruinous care charges if it wins power. […]

Lib Dem manifesto targets care charges, and promises to implement UN disability convention

By John Pring on 13th June 2024 Category: Politics

Lib Dem manifesto targets care charges, and promises to implement UN disability convention
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The Liberal Democrats have devoted a significant part of their manifesto to reforming adult social care and supporting independent living, but they have also pledged to implement the UN disability convention into law if they win power at the election.   […]

Union activists attack government’s ‘dehumanising’ rhetoric

By John Pring on 30th May 2024 Category: Politics

Union activists attack government’s ‘dehumanising’ rhetoric
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Disabled union activists have attacked the government’s demonisation of disabled people and its “disgraceful discriminatory language”, at a conference that began less than a day after prime minister Rishi Sunak finally announced the date of the general election. A series of […]

Stop this onslaught of attacks, say disabled people in letter to PM

By John Pring on 9th May 2024 Category: Human Rights

Stop this onslaught of attacks, say disabled people in letter to PM
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The prime minister has been asked to explain his government’s “onslaught” on disability rights, in a letter signed by more than 25 disabled people’s organisations and allies. They have accused Rishi Sunak of trying to “scare people into good health” and […]

Seven years on and no progress on disability rights by UK government, says UN

By John Pring on 25th April 2024 Category: Human Rights

Seven years on and no progress on disability rights by UK government, says UN
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The UK government has made “no significant progress” in the more than seven years since it was found guilty of “grave and systematic” violations of the UN disability convention, it has been told by human rights experts. In a report published […]

UN’s ‘damning verdict’ is ‘vindication’ of fightback against government’s rights violations

By John Pring on 25th April 2024 Category: Human Rights

UN’s ‘damning verdict’ is ‘vindication’ of fightback against government’s rights violations
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Disabled people’s organisations have welcomed the “damning verdict” of a UN committee on the government’s track record on key disability rights over the last seven years. They spoke out last night (Wednesday) as the UN committee on the rights of disabled […]

Government’s response to UN committee ‘was insult to disabled people’

By John Pring on 21st March 2024 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Government’s response to UN committee ‘was insult to disabled people’
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Disabled people’s organisations from across the UK have described the government’s evidence to a UN disability rights committee this week as “an insult to disabled people” and full of “half-truths, untruths” and “empty assertions”. Representatives from more than 10 disabled people’s […]

UN committee asks government: ‘Why are you demonising disabled people?’

By John Pring on 21st March 2024 Category: Politics

UN committee asks government: ‘Why are you demonising disabled people?’
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A United Nations committee has accused the UK government of demonising disabled people and treating them as “undeserving citizens” by preparing to fund tax cuts through slashing disability benefits. Members of the UN’s committee on the rights of disabled people provided […]

MPs undermine key government claim, days after it defended its record at the UN

By John Pring on 21st March 2024 Category: Politics

MPs undermine key government claim, days after it defended its record at the UN
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The government tried this week to persuade the UN that it has made “progress” since being found guilty of “grave and systematic violations” of the disability rights convention, just as MPs prepared to undermine one of its key claims. A delegation […]

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