The House of Commons Library have issued a research briefing, published on Wednesday January 13, 2016, regarding the UN Inquiry into the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the UK:
“The UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is conducting an inquiry into the impact of the UK Government’s policies on people with disabilities in relation to their human rights obligations. This briefing paper provides information on the Committee, details of the inquiry and an overview of the Government’s policies in relation to people with disabilities.
The inquiry is being conducted under the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, to which the UK has been a signatory since 2007. The Optional Protocol allows the UN Committee to investigate a State Party if they have received reliable evidence of ‘grave and systematic violations of the Convention’.
Investigations by the Committee are confidential, and the process, extent and scope of this inquiry are unknown. However, it is believed the inquiry will consider policies introduced by the Coalition Government since 2010 in relation to welfare and social security benefits, and in particular their compatibility with Articles 19 and 28: the rights of persons with disabilities to live independently and to enjoy an adequate standard of living.
The UK is the first country to be investigated by the UN in relation to this Convention.
This paper gives some background to the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Convention, as well as providing an overview of what we know about the UN inquiry. It then outlines a selection of policies introduced under the Coalition Government which have had an impact on people with a disability covering housing, education, welfare, justice, healthcare and employment.
The UN Committee report, along with the UK Government’s response, is not expected to be published until 2017.”
You can read the briefing in full here –The UN Inquiry into the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the UK
It’s also worth reading the two submissions to the inquiry from the Equality and Human Rights Commission, summarised by the UK Administrative Justice Institute and linked on here – Evidence of the impact of welfare reforms on disabled people
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Many thanks to Samuel Miller for flagging this up and for all of his outstanding work.
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This Inquiry has no legal force, and the results will be kept confidential.
In any decent society, it would be a shame to the government that the UN are making this investigation.
But now we have reached a point where they simply shrug their shoulders and turn away.
How did we come to this in so short a time ?
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The results won’t be kept confidential at all, they will be published next year by the UN
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I Come from one of the poorest parts of England.
I suffer a disability and life’s a struggle. I don’t need Cameron and Ian Duncan Smith forcing me to there will. ONE mistake and your penalized I hope the UN penalize this Tory shower!!!!!
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At last. Our disabled people have suffered enough. This lot needs to be tried for crimes against humanity.
I have jumped some of the hoops and surprised I have survived. Many have not and many will not.
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Discriminateing us make us suffer we will survive no matter how much you want the terminal people left to die we want to live you are wanting to lessen population but you bring in foreigners & make us suffer greed of the government save your flowers animals birds soil space ships we are just a number we are not important to help or save obviously it stinks cruel world this is what your made life is what we make it this is what life your make it thats what we do to survive your choices of this country .
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Its going to take EVERYONE together to make any change or this will just continue
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I’ve lost the will to live in this horrible world full of greed lies and persecution anyone may be for given for thinking this is a population cull of the lowest.
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