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A coalition of human rights organisations have written to the Prime Minister to sentence the UK authorities’s therapy of disabled folks and its ‘ongoing assault on disabled folks’s rights’.
Activists, migrant rights and anti-racism organisations are among the many 25 teams who’ve written to Rishi Sunak blasting the Tory Occasion’s failure to deal with its violations of human rights legal guidelines and its dangerous proposals for welfare reform.
Within the letter, the federal government is accused of negligence to public service funding in addition to inserting further obstacles on already marginalised communities, citing ministers’ latest plans to update the NHS Constitution.
The letter references the United Nations report printed in April which concluded that the UK Authorities had, “didn’t take all acceptable measures to deal with grave and systematic violations of the human rights of individuals with disabilities”, regardless of having eight years because the UN’s final investigation which first highlighted these violations.
Not solely had no acceptable measures been taken to deal with disabled folks’s human rights however there have been ‘indicators of regression’, the UN report discovered. Nonetheless later that month the federal government introduced plans to additional curb incapacity welfare, which on the time charities known as “an assault on disabled folks” as they argued it will solely “improve stigma and hurt”.
Claims by Tory ministers that Britain has a ‘sick be aware tradition’ and that accessing social safety had change into a ‘way of life selection’ was additionally slammed as “dangerous misinformation” within the letter.
A part of the letter states: “We have been additionally appalled to see the main points of your “Modernising help for impartial residing: the well being and incapacity inexperienced paper”, which undermines the very precept of an additional price profit for Disabled folks.
“You can’t scare folks into good well being, and you can not drive folks into inaccessible jobs.”
The letter additionally cited a “disturbing” hyperlink between dangerous insurance policies and elevated suicide amongst disabled profit claimants, and known as for a benefit-related deaths inquiry and investigation, accusing the federal government of constant to” cover the main points of this harmful negligence”.
The letter additionally says: “The difficulties we face on this nation aren’t as a result of folks in small boats search sanctuary within the UK or folks use the welfare state. We’re on this place due to your Authorities’s full disregard for worldwide regulation and contempt for human rights.”
The organisations urged the federal government to ‘work with us’ to construct a ‘radical and transformational incapacity technique’ and to usher in acceptable measures to deal with inequality and discrimination.
Organisations who signed the letter are:
Better Manchester of Disabled Folks, Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants, Selections and Rights Incapacity Coalition, Disabled Peoples Motion Group – Bradford and District, Liberty, Incapacity Constructive, Wheels for Wellbeing, William Gomes, Director, The William Gomes Podcast, Reclaim the Agenda, Psychological Well being Unbiased Help Crew, Wiltshire Centre for Unbiased Dwelling, Care Rights UK, Face Equality Worldwide, Rochdale and District Incapacity Motion Group, Manchester Disabled Folks’s Entry Group, Lee Starr-Elliott CWU Incapacity lead SW area and Deaf DPAC founder, Fairness Commerce Union, Incapacity Help, Authorized Motion for Ladies, International Ladies In opposition to Deportations, Institute of Race Relations, Civil Society Alliance, WECIL, Inclusion London and REAL.
Learn the total letter here.
(Picture credit score: Simon Dawson / Quantity 10 – Inventive Commons)
Hannah Davenport is information reporter at Left Foot Ahead
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