The proposed #UKGov #PIP Law actually appears to be unlawful!
‘The legal opinion says: “there can be no doubt that the reforms are regressive in #HumanRights terms. Therefore, in accordance with the principle of non-retrogression, they are presumed to be prohibited under #UNCRPD, #ICESCR and #UNCRC. Accordingly, the burden falls on the Government to show that despite the regressive nature of the reforms, they are complying with their obligations under the Treaties.”’
New expert legal opinion says the government’s welfare reforms “result in very serious breaches” of international human rights law and constitute “human rights violations for disabled people” and describes the proposals as “aggressive measures”, “regressive” and “prohibited”.
The #UnitedNations is not ignoring the treatment of #Disabled folk in UK. On 7.7.25 they sent a letter to #UKGov reminding the government of previous and ongoing serious failings to ensure #DisabilityRights and to protect people with #disabilities.
The link is to a downloadable document replete with quotations from previous communications with UKGov highlighting their heinous breaches of #UNCRPD.
📢 Webinar alert (10 April, 10am-12pm):
The CDLP, IHREC and the DPO Network will explain how to influence Ireland’s #UNCRPD reporting process. Learn to draft submissions, hear from experts (inc. former UNCRPD Chair), and get advocacy support.
I've always found their webinars really helpful, and well worth the time!
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#DisabilityRights #DPOs
Without #DisabilityRights
there is #DisabilityDiscrimination
which permits #DisabilityHate
and ultimately #DisabilityDeath.
Inter alia multiple breaches of #UNCRPD
Link to #DNS's website:
Successive UK governments – mostly Conservative-led – have failed to take any action to address six key disability rights recommendations made by the UN over the last decade, according to the human…
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We are absolutely thrilled to announce that BIT has been shortlisted for a Zero Project Award by Zero Project! 🌍🥳
🙏 Thank you to our amazing team & supporters for helping us reach this milestone. We are just getting started!
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General election manifestos: disabled people politically homeless
https://www.thecanary.co/opinion/2024/06/14/general-election-disabled-people-manifestos/
#GE
#GE2024
#Tories
#Labour
#Disabled
#PoliticallyHomeless
#Manifesto
#ChronicallyIll
#LongTermSick
#Ableism
#UniversalCredit
#NHS
#NHSCrisis
#CarersAllowance
#CA
#PIP
#DomesticAbuse
#ESA
#SocialCare
#SocialCareCrisis
#SEN
#SEND
#UNCRPD
#LibDems
#Greens
Another account of the #UNCRPD report and #UKgov’s failures including deaths, this time from #BigIssue.
#DisabilityRights #DisabilityDiscrimination #DisabilityHate #DisabilityDeath
“The #UK signed the #disabilities convention in 2009, but it has still not been incorporated into British law.
In 2016, an inquiry by the #UN's Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (#UNCRPD) found that the UK was in breach of three of the Convention's articles
The same inquiry found that welfare reforms introduced since 2010 had "adversely" affected #disabled people.”
#DisabilityRights #DisabilityDiscrimination #DisabilityHate #DisabilityDeath
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