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UK has become the first country in the world to be placed under investigation by the United Nations for violating the human rights of people with disabilities amid fears that thousands may have died as a consequence of controversial welfare reforms and austerity-driven cuts to benefits and care budgets.

UN inspectors are expected to arrive in the country within days to begin collecting evidence to determine whether the British government has committed "systematic and grave violations" of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD).

Read more here:
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/fe...k-deadly-disability-cuts-151012100921075.html

About time! I hope the UN actually do something.
 
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UK has become the first country in the world to be placed under investigation by the United Nations for violating the human rights of people with disabilities amid fears that thousands may have died as a consequence of controversial welfare reforms and austerity-driven cuts to benefits and care budgets.

UN inspectors are expected to arrive in the country within days to begin collecting evidence to determine whether the British government has committed "systematic and grave violations" of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD).

Read more here:
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/fe...k-deadly-disability-cuts-151012100921075.html

About time! I hope the UN actually do something.

Squeeze until the pips squeak indeed.
 
UK has become the first country in the world to be placed under investigation by the United Nations for violating the human rights of people with disabilities amid fears that thousands may have died as a consequence of controversial welfare reforms and austerity-driven cuts to benefits and care budgets.

UN inspectors are expected to arrive in the country within days to begin collecting evidence to determine whether the British government has committed "systematic and grave violations" of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD).

Read more here:
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/fe...k-deadly-disability-cuts-151012100921075.html

About time! I hope the UN actually do something.
Absolute codswallop....not that we shouldn't improve things for disabled, but they should investigate countries with real violations...like Muslim countries preventing women from leading real lives, countries all over the world who persecute homosexuals, places where disabled have no other option than to beg in the streets. Great Britain is just an easy target as they can expect us to pay attention...I'd send them away with a flea in their ear...come back when the rest of the world meets our standards.