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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 […]
Labour’s work and pensions team appears to be split over whether the party should pledge to act on serious concerns about the safety of the universal credit working-age benefits system. The party’s shadow minister for disabled people, Vicky Foxcroft, told Disability […]
A delegation of disabled activists will travel to Geneva this week to help the United Nations hold the UK government to account for its continuing breaches of the UN disability convention. Members of the delegation, representing leading disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) […]
Disabled activists have explained why they travelled from across England to protest outside the headquarters of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) at social security reforms they say will put the lives of even more claimants at risk. Monday’s protest […]
The government has accepted just two of the recommendations made by a committee of MPs who delivered a powerful attack on the government’s discredited National Disability Strategy. The Commons women and equalities committee said in December that the strategy was merely […]
A disabled activist has launched a legal attempt to force the government to carry out a fresh consultation on its plans to tighten the work capability assessment, which she believes will force many disabled people into poverty, or even destitution. Ellen […]
Labour has finally admitted that it is not currently planning to implement the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) into UK law if it wins power at the next general election. The admission was made by the […]
The minister for disabled people has refused three times to explain why his government failed to give evidence to the United Nations on its disability rights record, weeks after his party’s disability group expressed concern at the decision. The Conservative Disability […]
Disabled people’s organisations have been urged to “make a hell of a lot of noise” to promote a radical new manifesto that would tackle “the root causes of our oppression” if adopted by the next government. The Disabled People’s Manifesto calls […]
Disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) have secured a promise from Greater Manchester’s mayor that he will ask his party why it dropped a promise to implement the UN disability convention into UK law if it wins the next general election. Andy Burnham […]