Tories guilty of ‘grave, systematic violation’ of disabled people’s rights, activists tell RT

‘Britain’s Conservative government is guilty of “grave and systematic” violations of disabled people’s human rights which are “regressing on an unprecedented scale,” the United Nations will hear on Monday.
The UN in Geneva is undertaking its first periodic review of the UK since it ratified the Convention on the Rights of Disabled People (UNCRPD) in 2009.
The founder of Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC), Linda Burnip, told RT that welfare cuts, a lack of accessible housing and cuts to social and healthcare services, among other issues, are placing the UK government in breach of the convention.
“The government austerity measures have resulted in mass regression of rights in virtually all areas of disabled people’s human rights from access to independent living, loss of an adequate income, lack of accessible housing, lack of employment opportunities through to an increase in segregated education.”’
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