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Minister defends use of misleading jobs figures at UN

By John Pring on 16th June 2022 Category: Employment

Minister defends use of misleading jobs figures at UN
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The minister for disabled people and a senior civil servant have defended the use of misleading figures about the government’s performance on disability employment at a United Nations event in New York. They made the comments yesterday (Wednesday) at an event […]

Omission of disabled people from key parts of climate change text is ‘beyond disgraceful’

By John Pring on 18th November 2021 Category: Human Rights

Omission of disabled people from key parts of climate change text is ‘beyond disgraceful’
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Disabled climate activists say the failure of the UK and other governments to include disabled people in key parts of the Glasgow climate change agreement is “beyond disgraceful”. Despite campaigners repeatedly highlighting through the COP26 conference how climate change was having […]

Coronavirus: UN rapporteur’s concerns over impact of crisis on rights

By John Pring on 19th March 2020 Category: Human Rights

Coronavirus: UN rapporteur’s concerns over impact of crisis on rights
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Little has been done across the world to provide disabled people with the support and guidance needed to protect them during the coronavirus pandemic, despite many of them being in a high-risk group, a UN human rights expert has warned. Catalina […]

Tory conference: Leading disabled Tory ‘wouldn’t give UN the time of day’

By John Pring on 3rd October 2019 Category: Politics

Tory conference: Leading disabled Tory ‘wouldn’t give UN the time of day’
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A leading disabled Tory has defended his government’s disability policies, dismissing three highly critical reports by the UN and concerns about the impact of Brexit on social care, rights and access to medication. Barry Ginley, deputy chair of the Conservative Disability […]

Government is failing on disabled women’s rights, UN is told

By John Pring on 28th February 2019 Category: Human Rights

Government is failing on disabled women’s rights, UN is told
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Activists have told a UN committee how the UK government is failing to address the significant barriers and human rights violations faced by disabled women in accessing social security, justice, jobs and health services. Eleanor Lisney and Rachel O’Brien, from the […]

UN expert tells of disabled people’s ‘horrendous’ evidence on poverty

By John Pring on 15th November 2018 Category: Human Rights

UN expert tells of disabled people’s ‘horrendous’ evidence on poverty
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The UN expert investigating the government’s record on eradicating poverty has described how he has heard “pretty horrendous” evidence from disabled people while conducting a 12-day factfinding visit to the UK. Professor Philip Alston, the UN’s special rapporteur on extreme poverty […]

Lib Dem conference: Party votes to bring UN disability convention into UK law

By John Pring on 21st September 2017 Category: Human Rights

Lib Dem conference: Party votes to bring UN disability convention into UK law
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The Liberal Democrats have voted to incorporate the UN disability convention into UK law. Party members overwhelmingly passed an emergency motion that noted how the UK government was accused last month by a UN committee of causing a “human catastrophe” by […]

Government’s UN response ‘exposes failings on disability convention’

By John Pring on 13th July 2017 Category: Human Rights

Government’s UN response ‘exposes failings on disability convention’
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The government has ignored key evidence that demonstrates widespread breaches of the UN disability convention, according to disabled people’s grassroots groups and organisations that are working together to expose its failings. They spoke out after the government submitted its response to […]

UK’s Zero rating puts it near foot of European league table on disability rights

By John Pring on 1st June 2017 Category: Human Rights

UK’s Zero rating puts it near foot of European league table on disability rights
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The UK is one of the worst-performing countries in Europe when it comes to implementing the UN disability convention, according to an influential new report. The Zero Project details the progress made by 121 countries around the world on implementing the […]

Election 2017: Lib Dems make UN convention pledge

By John Pring on 1st June 2017 Category: Human Rights

Election 2017: Lib Dems make UN convention pledge
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The Liberal Democrats have pledged that they would incorporate the UN disability convention into UK law. Although the policy – which would give disabled people in the UK a wave of new rights in law – was not part of the […]

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