by 1voice | Sep 12, 2011 | information, News
‘Hidden in plain sight’, the final report of the EHRC inquiry into disability-related harassment was published on 12th September. The report unsurprisingly concludes that harassment is a commonplace experience for disabled people, and at the same time...
by 1voice | Jul 27, 2011 | News
On Wednesday 27th July disability rights campaigners from the anti-assisted suicide group Distant Voices, will stage a mock execution of a wheelchair user outside Parliament. The Distant Voices stunt is aimed at giving greater publicity to a different view on assisted...
by 1voice | Jan 24, 2011 | information
The excellent people who brought us www.theyworkforyou.com, the website that tells you what MPs have been saying and writing, have set up a website called “what do they know?” that helps you to make or explore freedom of informations requests to public...
by Cassandra of old | Oct 6, 2010 | information, opinion
Gordon Brown wanted to be “fair” about benefits, but he brought in Employment Support Allowance – the main purpose was to get disabled people off expensive incapacity benefit and into cheap unemployment. But that isn’t enough un-fairness for...
by 1voice | Mar 22, 2010 | information, opinion
The head of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) Equality and Diversity Unit says the CPS needs to raise it’s game on disability hate crime. This follows numerous reports on this site and eleshwhere of examples of the CPS failing to prosecute cases where disabled...
