disability rights
Fighting disability hate crime is the minimum the government should be doing
Shadow equalities minister Kate Green writes about her success in getting the government to accept and amendment which will equalise tariffs for disability hate crime.
Lack of disabled access to Parliament highlights wider problem of access
Lisa Nandy MP writes about the problems disabled visitors face when trying to access Parliament - access problems that occur to buildings and transport everywhere.
Tories whitewash the millions set to lose from welfare reform
Sue Marsh presents her first thoughts on Chris Grayling and Iain Duncan Smith’s speeches on welfare reform at the Conservative party conference today.
Nomination for most influential left-wing thinker: The disabled rights community
Nomination for left-wing thinker of the year: The disability rights community, in trying to change the way the whole country thinks about people with disabilities.
DWP faces legal challenge over welfare cuts
The Disability Alliance is taking legal action against the government's disability reforms, arguing that they disproportionately affect disabled people and their families.
Davies’s remarks are a much needed wake-up call; discrimination is alive and well
Philip Davies's disgusting, disgraceful, ignorant, ill-informed remarks about the disabled today have proved to be a much needed wake-up call, writes Jos Bell.