Changes to #UniversalCredit are urgently needed to help support young adults in Scotland. Here from young parents and young people with care experience in their own words, read our new #RightsInAction report, and please share.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfSdDQPiYss
Experiences of young adults claiming Universal Credit in Scotland

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It's wrong that people on low incomes face barriers when it comes to their rights to health and social care. Our latest #RightsInAction research shows how sick and disabled people in the asylum seeker often have even more difficulties placed on them.
https://www.povertyalliance.org/research-from-rights-to-realisation-disabled-people-and-carers-navigating-the-asylum-system/
πŸ“– Weekend reading!
As part of our #RightsInAction project, we worked with people who are carers, or who are sick or disabled, and who have experience of the asylum system. This report uncovers the extra barriers they face to get health and social care.
https://www.povertyalliance.org/research-from-rights-to-realisation-disabled-people-and-carers-navigating-the-asylum-system/
Disabled people and carers in the asylum system are being denied safety, dignity and compassion because they can’t get the health care they need. That's the finding of new #RightsInAction research published today.
https://www.povertyalliance.org/news-new-report-shows-disabled-people-and-carers-being-failed-by-asylum-system/
🎧 New podcast! Community researchers Sekou and Ishmail have lived experience of the asylum system. They talk with On the Margins about their advocacy work, participatory action research and the recently published #RightsInAction Learning Report.
https://onthemargins.org.uk/podcasts/
πŸ“† Thu 17 July, 10am – 12:30pm
Get inspired for #ChallengePoverty Week! This free online session will look at how we can use our human rights as a tool to drive change. #RightsInAction #WeDemandBetter
πŸ‘‡ Register here! https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/pmpaEaz0RaKoQudrUrzJUw#/registration
πŸ“† Thu 17 July, 10am – 12:30pm
Get inspired for #ChallengePoverty Week! In this free online session we'll look at how we can use our human rights as a tool to drive change. #RightsInAction #WeDemandBetter
πŸ‘‡ Register here! https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/pmpaEaz0RaKoQudrUrzJUw#/registration
πŸ“– Weekend reading!
Six national campaign organisations. Six months. A human rights approach to tackling poverty. Our Lydia Murphy blogs about how they worked together to put #RightsInAction.
https://www.povertyalliance.org/blog-new-rights-in-action-report-shows-far-reaching-impact/
Six national campaigning organisations worked with our Lydia Murphy through #RightsInAction to build and strengthen human rights-based approaches to their work. What happened? Find out in her blog!
www.povertyalliance.org/blog-new-rig...
Six national campaigning organisations worked with our #RightsInAction project to build and strengthen human rights-based approaches to their work. What happened? Find out here.
www.povertyalliance.org/blog-new-rig...