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”
LB
Doesn’t include the money the state owes people for their pensions.
‘Official national debt’ 1,200 bn. Far higher than at any time in the past. Many many times that when then NHS was formed, and the welfare state established.
To get ‘True debt’, when you include the debts of the welfare state, you need to add another 5,300 bn to the total.
That ignores PFI, cleaning up the nukes, and welfare payments, and spending. …
It’s bust.
You are being completely dishonest.
1. The borrowing was not above 1,200 billion in the past, because its at record highs. That’s your first deceipt.
2. The second one is to omit the pensions owed to people for all those contributions.
If you deny that is a debt, then the conclusion is you won’t honour the debt.
ref
what human rights are disabled people being stripped of? I’m disabled and I haven’t noticed any changes
RickB
Well you are very lucky, but do pay attention once you are reassessed for PIP probably after 2015. There are no life time DLA awards anymore, all will be reassessed under PIP by Capita & Atos and their track record is one of abusive fraud.
ref
I’m not on benefits. I work as do many other disabled people I know. We want to be treated just as non-disabled people are treated, not written off and told to sit at home and be grateful for handouts.
ref
you could work from home like I do? being at home doesn’t make you unfit for work