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”
Julia ې Peculiar
My sentiments exactly, Susanne. Well said!!
cfc1888
important to remember it was LABOUR who introduced both Employment And Support Allowance and ATOS with their disgraceful, unproffesional and negligent assessments, the Tories have just fast tracked the destruction of the welfare state by bringing in PIP to replace DLA and with the introduction of Universal Credit & the Bedroom Tax.
Alexk
Crap, most of the immigrants in the last few years have been white. They have been imported by big business in order to get rid of jobs for the native population.
And these immigrants get exploited very badly: £35 a day for a 12 hour day as I recall from on post on Shout99
Personally I get on better with immigrants, especially the non-white ones, than with most native British, especiallyTory voters. I do not want a mono-ethnic society but there comes a point at which incomers pose a threat to the economy even greater than the threat the coalition pose
Immigration MAY be a benefit to the country IF there are enough jobs to go round. Otherwise, as in 1918 and 1948 and under New Labour, immigration serves only to keep wages down and the poor at the bottom of society.
Remember next year 29 million East European Gypsies will be able to come here and claim benefits just by saying they are looking for work. There are many British born people cannot claim benefits. If even one in 10 arrive it will break the system in the UK. Businesses will love it, loads of minimum wage workers subsidised, through the benefit system, by the government,
Citing “Racism” just plays into the hands of the 1% here.
alexk
Precisely. It looks like the fit to work decision is driven by targets imposed by Government, not by evidence.
alexk
Have you adjusted the figures for inflation?