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”
RickB
What makes you privilege your non expert judgement above others and their doctors?
Are you denying depression is a genuine debilitating illness?
The issue is in the determintaino of ‘genuinely needy’ they are fraudlently denying people their medical conditions
Are you aware there was a 25% rise in negative media portrayals of disabilty in the same year a 25% rise in disability hate crime? A planned campaign by government to enable policy so people such as yourself would adopt these attitudes and deny the reality of human rights abuse? That the fraud rate is actually LESS THAN 1%?
ref
the fraud rate is probably less than 1%. the people I know who are taking the mickey because they are having an extended break are not actually committing fraud. they are going to the doctor, claiming to be unable to sleep and are depressed and getting signed off work. genuine depression is debilitating. the pubs are full of the not genuinely disabled.
John McAuley
why do more disabled people not know this there has been a rise on attacks on disabled people from the public as well as the verbal and benefit attacks from the coalition its just demonising people
LB
They are the same.
Liabillities are debts. According to GAAP and FRS17 (the accounting standards) they should appear as liabiltiies.
Borrowing is just another debt or liabilitiy.
My point to judge dredd is exactly as he says. They haven’t been reported. They still aren’t. you have to know where they hide the numbers.
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The national debt was higher when both the NHS and the welfare state were established.
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So this statement of his is a lie.
1. It omits the pensions, and that pushes the debt in the past and now higher.
2. The current borrowing figure alone, of 1,200 bn exceeds that in 1948, the date of the founding of the NHS. The figure for 1948 for the borrowing is 25.6 billion.
http://www.ukpublicspending.co.uk/spending_chart_1948_1950UKb_12c1li011mcn_G0t
Nothing like the facts to expose lies.
LB
Well, correct.
GIven the choice between a fire service, and paying fire servicemen’s pensions, the fire service wins.
The problem you face ref, is how to provide for your future, and protect it against the kleptomaniacs in power.