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UK: DPO campaigns against cuts
Posted 02/09-10 at 14.08
The Norfolk Coalition of Disabled People (NCODP), representing over 40 DPOs and 400 individual members, is mounting a campaign against the proposed budget cuts that threaten to slash a wide range of benefits and services for disabled people and th ...
UK: Cuts threaten travel for disabled and elderly people
Posted 31/08-10 at 14.39
Transport for All campaigns for a fully accessible, reliable and affordable transport network. It is extremely concerned about reports that cuts are planned of over 7,400 hours of ticket office staffing every week. This they say will have a disastrou ...
Uganda: ‘As If We Weren't Human': Discrimination and Violence against Women with Disabilities in Northern Uganda
Posted 31/08-10 at 12.26
"At a community meeting, they didn't allow me to talk. It happens to all persons with disabilities. It is as if we weren't human ... On occasions when food is being given, sometimes persons with disabilities are given what others leave behind on t ...
Swaziland: Children with albinism killed for body parts
Posted 31/08-10 at 11.39
The recent killing of two Swazi children with albinism has raised the prospect that the practice of murdering and dismembering such children for "muti" (medicine), especially prized for its supposed power against HIV/AIDs, is moving southwards from T ...
UK: Legal challenge launched against budget cuts
Posted 29/08-10 at 19.39
The Fawcett Society, which campaigns for equality between women and men in the UK, has started legal proceedings against the government over the emergency budget. They say that there has been no equality impact assessment, as required by law. ...
USA: Reports shows continued abuse of disabled people’s human rights
Posted 29/08-10 at 19.30
The UN Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is a review of the human rights records of all 192 UN Member States carried out once every four years. It provides an opportunity for all States to report on what actions they have take ...
USA: Disabled people arrested in protest against cuts
Posted 27/08-10 at 13.18
Twenty-two disabled people were arrested when they stopped traffic during a large, colourful demonstration outside California's Capitol Building on August 18th. 200 to 300 people had come to protest against the savage cuts to programmes supporting ...
Canada: Protest against euthanasia uses CRPD
Posted 25/08-10 at 18.51
The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition (EPC) is organising a protest against what they say is a hospital's attempt to kill a patient by withdrawing hydration and nutrition - euthanasia by omission. Joshua Kulendran Mayandi , a 48 year old pas ...
UN: Human Rights Council wants end to discrimination against people with leprosy
Posted 19/08-10 at 20.55
The UN Human Rights Council Advisory Committee has recommended the repeal of all laws which discriminate against people affected by leprosy.They also want States to enact legislation to ensure people affected by leprosy and their family members do ...
SENEGAL: Disabled children face stigma and abandonment
Posted 15/08-10 at 16.02
In Senegal many women refuse to take disabled children on public transport, families hide disabled children, and some parents disown them outright. According to Ibrahim Gueye, the father of a child with severe learning difficulty, "In Sene ...