At its AGM on April 14 2013, Amnesty International UK passed a resolution on the Human Rights of sick and disabled people in the UK.
At its AGM on April 14 2013, Amnesty International UK passed a resolution on the Human Rights of sick and disabled people in the UK.
The resolution read:
“This AGM calls for urgent action to halt the abrogation of the human rights of sick and disabled people by the ruling Coalition government and its associated corporate contractors.
Calls for Amnesty International UK to urgently work with grassroots human rights campaigns by and for sick and disabled people, carers and their families. And to set up a specialist Disability Human Rights network…..
To protect the human rights of people with disabilities, ill people and carers to halt this regressive and lethal assault on our rights.”
You can read the full resolution here.
This month saw the introduction of the notorious Bedroom Tax; it’s has been estimated that two thirds of the households hit by the tax contain disabled people. Atos Healthcare’s ‘fitness to work’ assessments of disabled people – a linchpin of the coalition’s welfare reforms – have also been slammed by charities and paralympians.
50 Responses to “Amnesty International condemns coalition for assault on disabled”
judge dredds dirty undies
There is plenty of money to help the needy. This has nothing to do with debt, it has everything to do with greed, amorality and downright ignorance.
OldLb
No there isn’t, unless you think spending people’s pension money, leaving them with no pension a good thing.
Maxwell did it, and look what the consequences were for the pensioners.
So back to the question, because you won’t answer it with numbers.
Are you disputing the 5,300 bn pension debt? ONS figures
What about the increase? 2005-10 it went up by 736 bn a year. ONS again.
There is no money. It’s gone. It’s been spent. There is just a massive state debt that can’t be paid. Can’t doesn’t mean there is a choice.
RickB
I was the proposer of this resolution, I would appreciate if you added a link to WOWpetition.com
judge dredds dirty undies
The national debt was higher when both the NHS and the welfare state were established. We appear to have survived. The goverment could easily find the money. Roll back the tax cuts for the wealthiest. Collect the billions that corporations avoid in tax. Stop wasting money on things like trident. And if the pensions system needs reforming so be it.
Sister of Darkness
Why punish the sick and disabled for a mess they didn’t cause? Please give me one good reason for why my disabled fiancé has to live on £75 less each month? And he did work as long as he could.
He was bullied at school and work for his disability but he got over it. And now he gets bullied by those who suppose to help him. You call this justice?!?
It were the banks that gambled with imaginary money as if they were casinos. And instead of letting them rot and send them to prison the government went and bought the corrupt lot. And now they blame the ones who have no choice but to rely on welfare for the mess by twisting statistics or just telling blunt lies.
More than half or welfare claimants ARE in work which tells me there is something seriously wrong. If you work full time and you can not support yourself and your family then we have too many greedy companies who do not care for their employees welfare but only care for how much money they can put aside for themselves and their share holders.
I just can not see the Tories changing anything about this because they are and always have been the same greedy bunch who do NOT care about the people’s welfare but just about how much is in their own pocket.
Let all the charities look after the poor so we do not have to. That is their attitude.
Never forget: A country is judged by the way it treats its poor and disabled. It just dropped quiet a few ranks.