đ˘ Webinar alert (10 April, 10am-12pm):
The CDLP, IHREC and the DPO Network will explain how to influence Irelandâs #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:
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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 #UKgovâs failures including deaths, this time from #BigIssue.
#DisabilityRights #DisabilityDiscrimination #DisabilityHate #DisabilityDeath
âThe #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.â
#DisabilityRights #DisabilityDiscrimination #DisabilityHate #DisabilityDeath
#UK still officially failing #disabled folk, that is 1:5 Brits.
âThe [#UN] Committee [#UNCRPD] finds that the State party has failed to take all appropriate measures to address grave and systematic violations of the human rights of persons with disabilities and has failed to eliminate the root causes of inequality and discriminationâŚâ
#DisabilityRights #DisabilityDiscrimination #DisabilityHate #DisabilityDeath
https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2024/04/24/uncrpd-report-april-2024/
UNCRPD: UK government abuse slammed by disabled people
https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-news/2024/04/26/uncrpd-disabled-people/
#WarOnDisabled
#UNCRPD
#UKGov
#Tories
#Disabled
#Deaths
#DeafAndDisabledPeoplesOrganisations
#DDPOs
#HumanRights
#WorkCapabilityAssesment
#WCA
#DisabledPeopleAgainstCuts
#DPAC
#InclusionLondon
#IncarcerationInPsychiatricFacilities
#HouseboundDueToLackOfSupport
#Abuse
#Liberation
#Benefits
#BenefitDeaths
#Starvation
#DisabilityWales
#NUJ
#DisabledNotHeard
âBBC just shamed itself again, this time over the #UNCRPD. So, here's what disabled people have to say.â https://www.thecanary.co/editorial/2024/03/21/uncrpd-bbc-disabled-people/
âWe see a reform agenda [in the UK] that is framed in a political narrative that demonises disabled people including proposals to cut disability benefits to reward working people⌠that tells disabled people that they are underserving citizens⌠coupled with an onerous and complex social benefits system that is the basis for trauma and preventable mental distress.â
â UNCRPD
https://www.thecanary.co/editorial/2024/03/18/uncrpd-18-march-uk-government/
I will join a team of deaf and disabled people from across the UK in Geneva, on March 18th, as the UK Government meet the United Nations to give evidence on their violations of disabled peopleâs rights under the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
From Northern Ireland:
Michael Lorimer - Omnibus Partnership
Tony O'Reilly - North West Forum of People With Disabilities
Dermot Devlin - DPAC NI
Dr. Mary-Elaine McCavert - DPAC NI
United Nations Summons UK Government Over Breaches of UN Convention on Disabled People's Rights â Byline Times
https://bylinetimes.com/2024/03/11/united-nations-summons-uk-government-over-breaches-of-un-convention-on-disabled-peoples-rights/
#UN
#Disabled
#Disabilities
#DisabilityRights
#WarOnDisabled
#UNCRPD
#UNCommitteeOnTheRightsOfPersonsWithDisabilities
#UNConventionOnTheRightsOfPersonsWithDisabilities
#EqualityAct2010
#EHRC
#UKIM
UK Government Faces UN For Violation of Disability Rights
18th March 2024 the UK government will be giving it's evidence to the #UNCRPD committee. The evidence session will be live on UN Web TV.
It's all the more information we get word out about this event the government rejects call to work with disabled people to draft new 10-year disability strategy.
Please share with the media across the UK that this is happening and put the spotlight on our issues.
I was delighted to hear the Disabled People's Parliament mentioned in Northern Ireland Assembly yesterday by Stewart Dickson MLA at the restoration of the Northern Ireland Executive at Stormont.
Alex Maskey was a great support in setting up this Parliament for deaf and disabled people as Speaker, and I hope Edwin Poots MLA will continue this forward.
My Way Access' Dermot Devlin has an important message to the MLAs and Political Parties at Stormont in Northern Ireland.
We need the Government running again and we need the UNCRPD for deaf and disabled people.
Delighted to meet Brendan B. Brown from Wheatus. He calls for Northern Ireland Assembly to implement the United Nations UNCRPD into local law.
Thank you Brendan for your support from deaf and disabled people.
#MyWayAccess #UNCRPD #Wheatus #Disabled #DisabledRights #Disability
I honestly thought the UN CRPD â United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities* â was a dead certainty for incorporation into UK law
After all, the UK ratified the treaty in July 2009, under the last (New) Labour government, so itâs been a long time coming
But it seems that the enfeebled Labour opposition under Keir Starmer really donât want to do anything the Tories wouldnât do: https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/labour-admits-dropping-disability-rights-pledge-from-policy-plan/
At least the Scottish Government have long made it clear that they intend to incorporate the CRPD north of the border (well, at least as far as devolved powers permit**): https://www.gov.scot/policies/disabled-people/uncrpd/
*Or in the UK, disabled people (social model)
**Not that those count for much any more, after Westminster has shown willingness to use the ânuclearâ Section 35 option to overrule the Scottish democratic process
#UNCRPD #CRPD #UnitedNations #ConventionOnTheRightsOfPersonsWithDisabilities #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs
