A new website will collect evidence on how disabled people’s human rights are being breached, as part of efforts to monitor the UK’s implementation of the new UN disability convention.
Disability Rights Watch UK aims to bring disabled people and their organisations together to build up a picture of disabled people’s lives.
The information will be used [...]
Channel 4 has again come under fire from disabled activists, after allowing a high-profile comedian to tell offensive, disablist “jokes” about the son of model Katie Price in his comedy show.
Campaigners say Channel 4’s refusal to remove the jokes from Frankie Boyle’s Tramadol Nights casts fresh doubt on the decision to grant it the UK [...]
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