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disability rights

October 15, 2020

Shackling of people with mental health conditions 'common' worldwide, says new report

Shackling people with mental health conditions is a widespread brutal practice that is an open secret in many communities, Human Rights Watch says in a new report.
May 21, 2018

Rail company policy on disabled passengers 'outrageous'

Rail company instructions to staff regarding disabled passengers dubbed insulting and outrageous.
October 19, 2017

Why I launched the Chronic Illness Inclusion Project

Disabled people are all different. That may sound obvious but politicians need reminding of it sometimes.
September 4, 2017

NUJ endorses UN censure of UK welfare cuts

The National Union of Journalists' Disabled Members’ Council has supported calls on the UK government to take urgent action to address the human rights violations of deaf and disabled people.
March 1, 2017

Disabled woman resorts to suing shops that deny her access

A wheelchair user in Cambridge has begun court proceedings against eight businesses that have refused her requests to install ramps that would allow her to access them.
July 18, 2014

We need a right to live, not a right to die

A friend of mine who uses a wheelchair was recently approached by a stranger who crossed over the road to talk to her. Without knowing anything about her, he told her that he supported her right to die with dignity through assisted suicide. She told him that she was more concerned with her right to live than her right to die.
February 18, 2014

Resist Atos - national day of demonstrations

At the Conservative Party conference in 2011, David Cameron told a lie in his speech. This is not a claim I make lightly.
October 6, 2013

Dutch social care shift hits disabled people’s rights

The Netherlands government plans to slash social care funding and put pressure on frail elderly and other disabled people to do ‘voluntary’ work in return for any help they get, the newspaper Volkskrant reported. Austerity measures have already taken a heavy toll, and are hugely unpopular.
March 20, 2013

No practical concern for disabled in Osborne's 'aspiration nation'

Disabled people want to live independently. But the support they need to get up, get dressed and get out and about is being increasingly squeezed.
January 10, 2013

Cutting benefits to sickest may backfire

The UK government’s Welfare Benefits Up-rating Bill will hit even seriously ill people and their families, specialists have pointed out. The controversial measure involves limiting increases in most working-age benefits to one per cent a year for three years from 2013-14 – a drop in real terms, since the cost of living is rising considerably faster.