Britain’s Treatment Of The Poor. UN Investigation into Youth Unemployment, The Disabled, Child Poverty, Funding for Mental Health Services

‘The United Kingdom became the first country to face a high-level inquiry by the United Nations committee responsible for oversight of disability rights into charges of “grave or systemic violations” of disabled people’s rights – an investigation which provoked “fury” among Tory MPs. The committee has the power to launch an inquiry if it receives “reliable information” that such violations have been committed by a country signed up to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and its optional protocol. Which it did. This is one investigation focusing on one set of reports of probable abuse by government of its citizens.

In this investigation the United Nations Committee on the rights of persons with disabilities is holding separate confidential hearings in the UK as part of an investigation into the effects of welfare cuts, during which it will speak to campaigners, lawyers and service users.’

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