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.
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50 Responses to “Amnesty International condemns coalition for assault on disabled”
Albert Curie
people who have been diagnosed as being to ill to work by GPs and or hospital Drs are being declared well enough to work on the say so of physiotherapists and nurses employed by a business organisation contracted to reduce the amount of social security payments given to people who have been declared as too ill to works by unbiased NHS Drs.That is a moral outrage and makes a mockery of UK civil liberties, justice and any sense of fair play.
Albert Curie
Their rules are not stupid from their point of view they want to strip people of state financial support come what may.They don’t care whether you are medically fit for work or not
Albert Curie
The social security benefits in France Holland and Germany are far more generous than they are in the Uk.If the govt are really short of money then they need to ensure that companies pay due tax.Taxing them on UK turnover would be a simple solution.
Susanne Deumig
It’s disgusting how the ConDems are treating the sick and disabled people in this country.
They need to address the causes to the high welfare bill, not cut people off, causing them to lose the will to live. It’s inhumane.
1. Tackle rental controls and the Housing Benefit Bill WILL go down.
2. Build more social housing and the waiting list and unemployment will go down.
3. Increase the minimum wage to a livable wage and the Tax Credits Bill will go down.
4. Tackle tax avoidance and tax loopholes and we will have the funds to pay the poorest and disabled enough in benefits to ensure they don’t go hungry or cold.
5. Make State Pensions and Cold Weather Payments means tested to avoid paying the rich that don’t need it. Peter Stringfellow wasn’t happy about receiving it, he said that others are desperate, whilst he is not.
6. Restrict immigration and introduce a point system or similar, like other countries do to protect themselves, like Germany, Australia and USA.
7. Put the highest tax bracket up to 55%. If Germany can do it, so can we.
8. Make politicians and governments ACCOUNTABLE if they break pre-election promises. I’m so sick of David Cameron ensuring that the poor and sick are tortured until they lose the will to live, when he had promised in 2010 that they would be protected.
9. Restrict MPs expenses and only allow minimal 2nd home allowances. I don’t see why they should just have a small 1-bed apartment somewhere near parliament that doesn’t cost £24,000 per year. Let them take sandwiches to work like everyone else in the country, rather than paying £36 for breakfast. That’s crazy and it’s more than some people’s entire food budget for the week. Most other European countries do this, like Sweden and Germany.
10. Restrict the banking system and Banker’s bonuses, especially if they are state owned.
11. Regulate the energy firms so that people are charged fairly.
12. Protect the farming industry and small corner shops.
There are so many things that need to be done … why can’t they just start on some of them?? It’s totally crazy!!
The problem is, they know all this, but refuse to do anything about it, because pampered politicians like David Cameron, George Osborne, Iain Duncan Smith and Nick Clegg are millionaires themselves. They are so far removed from reality, they just don’t care. They go home every night to their mansions and champagne & lobster dinners.
tina fassenfelt
yes the coalition govt have taken away part of the equality act,they did it on tuesday.nothing was reported in the media,I read it on here ,it now means the man who had out of court settlement for 2k with atos over wca ,he cited equality act now means rights have been strpped away ,it was kept very quiet.good that amnesty are getting involved we need somebody to protect human rights of disabled and carers.nothing ever reported on the media,had dispatches and panorama programmes and yet still have atos been awarded contracts.