Sunak’s Government Accused of ‘Hiding’ from Damning United Nations Inquiry on Treatment of Disabled

Disability organisations have accused Rishi Sunak’s Government of “showing contempt” for disabled people, after failing to give evidence to a key United Nations inquiry. The inquiry evidence session, taking place in Geneva on 28 August, is part of a follow up to the special investigation carried out by the UN’s committee responsible for the Convention on the Rights of Disabled People in 2016. The report from the UN disability investigation, published that year, confirmed that the UK had committed “grave and systematic violations” of disabled people’s rights, due to welfare cuts and wider austerity. The Conservative Government said at the time that it “strongly disagreed” with the findings. But the Government is understood to have pulled out from providing evidence to a rare follow-up hearing next week – scuppering the meeting at the last minute, disability campaigners say. The meeting was due to examine progress – or lack thereof – in implementing the recommendations from the damning report. “Flights were booked, huge effort went in – and now we will have to repeat [it] again in six months. It’s really rude to the committee but also dismissive of the huge effort disabled people have put in – and ignoring the strain all of this puts on us,” a spokesperson for Disabled People Against Cuts told Byline Times.

https://bylinetimes.com/2023/08/25/sunaks-government-accused-of-hiding-from-damning-united-nations-inquiry-over-treatment-of-disabled-people/

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